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SUMMARY:The Beginning of Theory - Maya Indira Ganesh (University of Cambri
 dge)
DTSTART:20231108T114000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In 2008\, a Wired magazine op-ed famously declared that big da
 ta would spell the &lsquo\;end of theory&rsquo\;\; when everything is just
  data points\, then we would no longer need to care why humans did things\
 , only to map that they did\; so Farsi would be no different from Klingon\
 , said the op-ed\, and we wouldn&rsquo\;t need Psychology or&nbsp\; Sociol
 ogy. We are now living in the moment prophesied by Wired as transformer mo
 dels and diffusion models reshape the landscape of knowledge-production\, 
 teaching\, and learning. This talk has two aims: to surface concerns about
  making knowledge and learning in a blended human-machine world\; and seco
 nd\, to share how a Humanistic Social Scientist might consider the landsca
 pe of pedagogy in AI times. Taken together\, they indicate the kinds of et
 hical\, social\, and cultural concerns associated with AI and ethics.&nbsp
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