Two more to read on AI

 Two from this weekend:

• "Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT while doing practice math problems did worse on a math test compared with students who didn’t have access to ChatGPT. Those with ChatGPT solved 48 percent more of the practice problems correctly, but they ultimately scored 17 percent worse on a test of the topic that the students were learning."
  Coverage is in The Hechinger Report, and the study itself is here.
  
  
• The New Yorker, if you can get past the paywall, has a piece from Ted Chiang entitled "Why AI isn't going to make art" which includes the following: 
  

  The task that generative AI has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.