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“Though not outright proof on its face” is where the heuristics from the conversation would inform next steps. Plagiarism of…
I can’t speak to what LLMs and AI in general might be capable of now or in the future. What…
I think that Kaufman is probably wrong about AI’s capacity for original research but concern about universities survives and even…
“said explicitly that AI will simply accelerate something that is already happening.” – The metaphor people use is “force multiplier”…
(Sorry, I feel I’m becoming the gadfly in this conversation!) Regarding 1: I learned to take the ‘demographics is destiny’…
Yeah, I clocked this one right away as almost surely AI. Given the username, I should allow that it *might*…
Apologies if I’m reading you uncharitably, but it sounds like you are advocating for course failure and later expulsion on…
Sean Walsh (philosophy of logic and mathematics, mathematical logic), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine, has accepted a tenured offer to begin January 1, 2018. This is the third senior hire UCLA has made in the last year (the others were Michael Rescorla from UC Santa Barbara and Sherrilynn Roush from King's College, London).
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