🔗 linkblog: Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million - Polygon'

Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million - Polygon

Date Linked: 15 September 2023

Source: story link, from polygon.com

This is an interesting interview. I don’t think I’m sold on the defense—if anyone can afford to pay artists, the team behind Terraforming Mars can—but I do see how there’s more nuance here than my gut reaction to the headline. Still not pleased, though.

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College conversation about investment in GPT-type tech to support research is continuing. I think it’s… fitting that the survey being circulated is clearly using Qualtrics’s auto-suggested Likert responses—and that the responses aren’t quite right for the questions being asked.

My college is floating the idea of investing in GPT-type technology to help researchers code text data. This reminds me of my longtime belief that the distinction between “qual” and “quant” is often less important than the distinction between different research paradigms.

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