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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…
If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…
The concluding number of this terrific, but under-recognized British hard/progressive rock band (with one American, Gary Wright, of later "Dream Weaver" fame in the 1970s), this is the concluding number of their best album, Spooky Two:
Great as usual. The singer is Gary Wright who later did "Dream Weaver."
In addition to Wright, the band featured Luther Grosvenor, aka Ariel Bender, who played in Mott the Hoople and, later, the short-lived Widowmaker, a quite good band in a Bad Company vein. I had the privilege of hearing Widowmaker live when they opened for Electric Light Orchestra. Vocalist Mike Harrison of Spooky Tooth also had an enduring career in rock.
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