"Why should students continue to spend years on research tasks that AI can handle in minutes?"
Because the point of having students do research is for the students to learn how to do research.
Also: the AI cannot, in fact, handle it.
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These e-bike-loving parents have been breaking the law for school drop off. Why the province is finally shifting gears - Toronto Star apple.news/AcYAm-eJpSMu...
Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing.
If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.
Our @normeisen.bsky.social is working with @karenattiah.bsky.social to fight for her First Amendment rights.
New preprint!
We introduce a new benchmark, SciConBench, with 9.11k scientific questions derived from Cochrane Systematic Reviews.
We find evidence that frontier AI agents **cannot** synthesize scientific conclusions well.
A thread 🧵
w/ @hayoungjung.bsky.social & others!
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New OMB rule would move science funding from experts to political appointees, and let agencies cancel grants mid-project.
Wrote up the plain version + how to comment before July 13.
open.substack.com/pub/lettheda...
I’m considering whether I could set this up as required reading for students to gain access to my module canvas sites. Such a great summary of important issues.
I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted.
Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵
