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Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…
I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…
Hear hear
I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…
I’m not sure I’d yet go so far as to call LLMs an existential threat to universities. But I do…
My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…
I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…
…now this. Locusts can't be far behind. And no doubt Pat Robertson (or Rick Perry!) will weigh in soon to explain it all.
Good luck to all readers in the path of this hurricane and be safe!
(I was a youngster in Manhattan during Hurricane Agnes in 1972, which was the most direct hurricane 'hit' on NYC previously–I can still remember some of the drama, though none of it was as worrisome as the forecasts now circulating.)
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