To Compare is Human, To Predict is AI

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Across
  1. 3. He said Number 35
  2. 5. *Rita Hayworth and the _________________ Redemption*
  3. 8. Preferred method for handing in weekly reading responses in Eng 7570
  4. 10. An important writing award, ___________ of the Pen
  5. 13. Revolutionary Pedagogue Paulo
  6. 14. Gee’s idea of being “pleasantly_____________” (p. 186)
  7. 15. Television show featuring Joe Friday (p. 106)
  8. 16. “New technology has made it easier to see what we cannot______” (p. 177)
  9. 17. Author of *Co-Intelligence* Ethan _______________
  10. 21. Idea of___________, that certain tools “affect human cognitive performance” in drastic ways (p. 200) (2 words)
  11. 25. United States of ______________ (dying empire)
  12. 26. It’s the ‘G’ in ‘GPT’
  13. 27. Law-enforcement-themed comedy from Broken Lizard
  14. 29. Motivation type (p. 185)
  15. 30. Network home of *The Simpsons*
  16. 31. We stand on the ____________ of giants
  17. 32. Elbow of *Everyone Can Write* fame (p.199)
  18. 33. English polymath who said #33
  19. 35. Your creativity relies on these kinds of ideas (p. 63)
  20. 36. Master of chess defeated by Deep Blue (p.13)
  21. 38. “Angel of History” theorizer
  22. 39. Terminator franchise AI baddie
Down
  1. 1. Lev____________ (constructivist genius) (p. 77)
  2. 2. B in “NIMBY” (p. 121, 186)
  3. 3. There’s no___________ under____________
  4. 4. Seven at One Blow Tale (4 words)
  5. 6. Technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from __________
  6. 7. Universal Pictures owns this speedy franchise (3 words, p. 175)
  7. 9. One of the 5 prompt templates (p. 164)
  8. 11. Inventor of the World Wide Web (2 words)
  9. 12. Nonsense internet slang “______________ toilet”
  10. 18. A late night host who’s a real barbarian
  11. 19. Local watering hole favored by the coolest & smartest English peeps
  12. 20. School that brought us Adorno and Horkheimer
  13. 21. “Heaven is a Place on Earth” singer Belinda________________
  14. 22. Satire by Mike Judge that seems more like a documentary these days
  15. 23. Undead character, recently remade
  16. 24. “It is like discounting the_______of the internet because your dial-up service is slow” (p. 117)
  17. 28. One of the 5 prompt templates (p. 164)
  18. 34. Illegal method of acquiring media on the internet
  19. 37. I (Megan) do not agree with the quote for clue 39. Technology can’t imagine anything a human didn’t imagine first. If I can’t imagine it, ChatGPT can’t suggest it. I understand the gist of what Watson & Bowen are trying to say, but the wording rankles. Imagination occurs in the absence of things. I need a clever format for a weekly response paper and one does not yet exist, so I imagine various ways to annoy my instructor. If technology is indeed showing me things I can’t imagine, then in some ways it’s destroying imagination. If there’s never a lack, never a curious void that my particular consciousness sees as needing filled…my imagination will ____________ (from the Greek, ‘lack of food’). I think new technology throughout history has simply made it easier for us to share our imagination with other people. And I try most days to be hopeful that this latest iteration of ‘new tech’ will encourage more imagination & more sharing, not less. If not, we’ll continue to be blown into a disastrous future, backs turned, wings useless. These acrostic clues are where I still find myself.