Low-Ambition Companies Will Suffer from AI
Companies laying off workers for AI agents are either misjudging how agents will work or they're just low-ambition companies.
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Journals are publishing fake citations, too
Apropos to my earlier post about the Springer textbook with fake citations, academic journals are seeing a rash of the same thing. What Heiss came to realize in the course of vetting these papers was that AI-generated citations have now infested the world of professional scholarship, too. Each time he
Machine learning textbook from major publisher has hallucinated sources
I don’t think I can adequately stress how bad this is for a publisher as big as Springer to screw up this badly. A new textbook of theirs had extensive hallucinated sources. Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book.
AI is a magnifier, which is wonderful and terrible
The ability to do more doesn’t equate with wise judgment or good character. What we bring to AI matters at least as much as what AI can actually do.
Cheating Is Expensive for Everyone
AI-assisted cheating being so easy to do means the normal mechanisms for dealing with cheating get completely swamped.
AI is Coming for Universities, and Grades Are Why
Plenty of industries are getting stalked by AI right now. But if AI is the lioness, universities are the already-sickly members of the herd lamely trying to outrun her.
Working great until it doesn't
Since May, I've been using Cursor to build some projects that I'll certainly be sharing more here. It's been pretty invigorating. I've learned more in the last six months than I can remember learning at any time. And that includes grad school.