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I’m not at a university, so I don’t have a ton to contribute, but I want to subscribe to see…
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…
If much of the interest of high-quality papers lies between the lines—in the metaphorical fire that a paper lights in…
I would also recommend that potential grad students make inquiries into how far the compensation package actually goes towards cost…
It’s a mix. I’m still in the UAE with my family, and we feel safe. But some students and faculty…
In the above comment, Michel wrote: “As an aside, every once in a while I check out how the chatbots…
…with the always congenial Lee Pacchia at Bloomberg. Not much new, however, for those who've read my comments here.
Professor Craig Bradley, the Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law at the University of Indiana – Bloomington, passed away this week. He was 67. Bradley was a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and joined the IU faculty in 1979.
Update: I have corrected Professor Bradley's age. He was not 70 as I originally reported.
The central claim is that LLMs (or AI more generally, I suppose) is an existential threat to universities. This gets…