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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…
This sums it up quite well and methodically. And, one of the real goals, namely, to justify cuts to social welfare programs, is already rearing its head. Although Trump hasn't killed us all (yet anyway), he has emboldened the imprudent wing of the ruling class in ways that promise either the ruin of the country or secession by the remaining civilized states.
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