Re: <nettime> Essay-Grading Software

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

On 04/26/2013 09:52 AM, Newmedia@aol.com wrote:

> Machines will*never*  become "conscious" or "emotional" or "spiritual"
> because none of that is "programmed" into them.

Alas, but as the mod squad have noted, people can eaily be turned into 
very dull and disspirited beings when they are compelled to follow 
unintelligent machinic routines. Writing for the test was never great; 
but imagine writing for the pseudo artificial-intelligence robot...

We believe this can't stand, that people will always break away, refuse 
a mind-numbing job, etc., and to some extent that's true. But those 
beliefs are also based on behavior in the 1960s, a time of full 
employment, when you could walk out of any job and find another. Compare 
that to today. The picture is wildly different. Let's all help each 
other out of the hard corners in the years to come...

best, Brian


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