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I have at times live-posted GDC sessions and now I’ve picked “Teaching Games with Games” where @alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social have designated this year’s 4-person panel topic as “teaching students about generative AI” without doing what S.B. describes as “cop shit” (policing AI usage)

And @chouxsalad.bsky.social is describing ways of teaching about the Turing Test, pointing out the neglected history of its inspiration as a gender-masking/detection game, and exercise using pre and post-generative chatbots (Eliza!) for a new version of the imitation game for students

Having students read @n-w-f.bsky.social’s 2009 writing on the Eliza effect and then comparing to the contemporary “GPT effect” including exercises and assignments trying to poke at a LLM chatbot to suss out limits of its abilities, tendencies, training data, etc.

Now each other panelists presents an exercise in this area, starting with textile-based play designer & educator @codingcrafter.bsky.social who starts off by summarizing higher ed’s polycrisis, and how everyone (admins, faculty, students) urgently needs more thorough, critical AI literacy