Dan's post below is predicated on a mistaken assumption: Larry Kramer didn't frame any of this in terms of being #1 in US News, it was the reporter who framed the issue that way. The only way to be #1 in US News is to out-spend Yale. End of story!
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Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…
Dan's post below is predicated on a mistaken assumption: Larry Kramer didn't frame any of this in terms of being #1 in US News, it was the reporter who framed the issue that way. The only way to be #1 in US News is to out-spend Yale. End of story!
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…