«Characterizing a task as a mapping from inputs to outputs might be appropriate for machine learning. But if we adopt that as a way to understand what people do, we are complicit in the dehumanziation so rampant in the production and sales of so-called “AI”. I expect better from people involved in higher education and people reporting on higher education, and I hope you do, too.»
https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/doing-their-hype-for-them/
This is similar to what I’ve been saying for a long time: people ascribe too much to computers and have been since they were invented.