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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…
Originally the b-side to Cocker’s first hit single, his cover of the Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends,” it was added to later editions of his 1969 debut album. I discovered this by chance last year, having never heard it before:
Feel free to add links to your Joe Cocker favorites, live or studio versions, as you prefer.
“Though not outright proof on its face” is where the heuristics from the conversation would inform next steps. Plagiarism of…