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My home state, Utah, is packed with law-breakers, scofflaws. They do it with impunity, on a daily basis. To make matters worse, law enforcement is complicit. It’s illegal to drive faster than the speed limit. Utah takes this very seriously; the penalty is not trivial. Anywhere from just
The third of a series by Alexander Kustov on AI attitudes among academics. I found the entire series to be quite persuasive. I suspect before long that AI use in academic writing will be common as long as its use is disclosed. But the idea that AI use in research
I don't see our choice as "AI or no AI" any more than past generations could halt the spread of the printing press — that widely decried threat to scholarship. Children born today will never know a world without AI. The majority of U.S. teens already
Politically, academics are much more liberal than the average person. But Paul Bloom makes the excellent point that, in areas related to their work, academics are actually deeply conservative. Asking a prof about AI is like asking a taxi driver to weigh in on Uber. I think I have good
From an economist, about his extensive experiments with AI-driven academic research. I don’t have much of a research background, but his experiences seem right where expected. My point is that the experiment — can we do research at high speed without much human input — was a failure. And it
Whatever your opinion of AI, I found this idea of teaching being either adversarial or cooperative to be really interesting. I definitely find myself using both perspectives depending on the situation (and the student). I’d rather be cooperative the vast majority of the time. Your prediction about the effect
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
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.
Why all good learning starts with a question that matters.
AI-assisted cheating being so easy to do means the normal mechanisms for dealing with cheating get completely swamped.
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.