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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 account is horrifying. If the quotes are accurate, the man is both illiterate and an imbecile. Here he is commenting on Brett Stephens, the worst NYT op-ed writer since Abe "I'm writing as bad as I can" Rosenthal: "I just think he’s an exceptional writer and thinker.” Only someone not familiar with writing or thinking could say this.
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