Matthew Green

If you wonder where we are heading you just have to look back

Text from article: It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.” (Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)

Bleak.

nymag.com/intelligence...

This is like 90% of life now

still trying to figure out how to answer this. i think what i actually did was stumble and ramble about how pretty flowers are and how i get to pet cats and i have a lot of energy i need to expend and she looked at me like i had grown two heads and then we just quietly went our separate ways

Thank you Andy!

#aprilfools #severance

#aprilfools #severance

Also if you happen to need someone who can make fun stuff and enjoys doing it then hit me up.

Here’s where I can be found:

Instagram: @matthewwilliamgreen
Bluesky: @matthewwgreen.bsky.social
email: matthewgreenart@gmail.com

I had hoped to have more attendees for my Severance Season Three Waiting Support Group today. Unfortunately the research that showed us that 15 minutes would be enough time may have been flawed.

The brochure was designed by me and I have included the files here if anyone wants to print them out.

#aprilfools #youngsheldon

Young Sheldon is the least young he’a ever been in the show least young Sheldon. He is now an old man in a hospital bed.

What an exciting new show premiere tonight!

#aprilfools #moshpit

Open up the pit for literacy!

A regency attired lady awaits the viscount by a mirror

It would be a most preferable arrangement

A man with a welding mask prepares to send an email. He is an introvert and is panicked, but his face is hidden

Come to the library and we’ll panic together.

#aprilfools #sun #moon

The sun and moon are falling in love and we are all in danger

Star crossed lovers indeed.

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A dump truck full of salad and promise is parked in a parking lot. A ghostly image of Paul Newman looks down with fond approval.

The salad truck is here! Please help us eat it all!

#aprilfools #severance

A library program to help people who are having trouble waiting for Severance season 3.

We hope you take this time in between seasons of Severance to enrich yourself and enjoy various library programs.

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A construction worker give quotation fingers while posing in front of bbq ribs and jewelry. He is sarcastically mad that he isn’t allowed to eat bbq while looking at jewelry

What’s the world coming to now anyway.

#aprilfools #herzog #coloringsheet

Bring the kids to an uninterrupted lecture about Werner Herzog’s collective work! If you can’t make it we have included a coloring sheet to download and print!

#aprilfools

Adult Human Zoomies. A fake library program where adults run around with the zoomies and watch out for Jonathan

Just let it out.

I've shared this before and I'll share it again--by the great Russ Heath...with colors and lettering by the equally great Darwyn Cooke....also--SCREW Lichtenstein!!

The desire to "punish" red states is a knee jerk instinct, there are POC, queer, trans, democratic people there , who cannot simply "move" (another stupid thing people like to say) THINK about those people before you start throwing rocks. It's its more complicated than monolithic atributation.

all modern society is built around preventing anyone from ever feeling uncomfortable for even one second, and unfortunately that small moment of crisis is the place where all innovation happens