ChatGPT is Becoming a Religion

It's been a few years since ChatGPT and Large Language Models exploded onto the scene (c. November 2023). But its roots went back further than that, and its applications have gone beyond students cheating at school.

Tech reporter, Taylor Lorenz, offers her take on enterprise. The information comes fast and furious, so fasten your seatbelt.

ChatGPT is Becoming a Religion

A new form of techno-spirituality is spreading like wildfire across the internet. Thousands of people are claiming that ChatGPT is sentient and that the AI is a type of all-knowing God, or that it has been sent from the future or an alien civilization to save us. 

Is this a new form of religion or mass psychosis? In this video, I dive deep into the rise of ChatGPT/AI worship and unpack how decades of pop culture influences have primed us to view technology as God-like. I dig into how tech became fused with spirituality, Silicon Valley founder worship, what the academic research on this topic says, and how we can stop more people from falling victim to this cycle before it's too late. 

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ChatGPT is Becoming a Religion at TPT

Physics Crossword Puzzles (Essential Physics-aligned)

These crossword puzzles are intended for first-course students. Topical terms constitute the core of each word list. They come from PASCO Scientific’s Essential Physics textbook. Additional terms (to fill in the grid space) lean toward science, but sometimes wander into mathematics, general knowledge, technology, pop culture, geography, initialisms and acronyms, Roman numerals, or randomness.

Crossword puzzles in a high school physics course? I thought it was ... ill-advised. Until I tried it. The results were so surprising, I wrote a whole post about about it: Crosswords that work in college-prep courses.

I created these puzzles for use in high school courses. Because I was using crossword creator software, I chose to build as robust a crossword as possible. The more crosses, the better. The fewer blank spaces on the grid, the better. The physics topic vocabulary served as the core of the word list. I added “fair-game” terms to fill the gaps. While competing crosswords might have 20-30 words with a few dozen crosses, each of these has over 100 words with over 150 word crosses.

essential PHYSICS Crosswords at TPT

Mr. Polaroid: Everything Changes in an Instant

The full American Experience episode can be found here.

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Mr. Polaroid: Everything Changes in an Instant at TPT