Can Artificial Intelligence Think About its Thoughts?
Ricky J. Sethi proposes implementing metacognition in generative AI to enhance self-monitoring and decision-making. By using a metacognitive state vector, AI can evaluate emotion, correctness, and conflicts, enabling better responses. This could improve safety and transparency in fields like medicine and education, though challenges remain in calibration and validation.
The Instagrammatology of the Neoliberal University
The term Instagrammatology points to a familiar pattern of converting surplus value (generally aesthetic and leisure values) as the mainstay of everyday lives. It refers to the accumulation of idioms stemming from digital platforms that convert attention into value, simplify complex social relations into feedable bites, seem to metamorphose identity as easily constructible and digestible,…
