I Just Started Grad School This Fall After A Few Years Away From School And Man I Did Not Realize How

I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man I did not realize how dire the AI/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:

I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded "Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us"

One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions "in case it takes over some day."

I asked one of my TAs in a math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went "I don't know, ask chatGPT"

A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When I asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He still insisted he was right when I pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages.

A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the "computational" version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong "less often". He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can't figure out why he's struggling on exams.

There's a lot more, but it's really making me feel crazy. Even if it was right 100% of the time, why are you paying thousands of dollars to go to school and learn if you're just going to plug everything into a computer whenever you're asked to think??

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2 years ago

Say her name - Helen Ahmadi. She was 7 years old and killed by the IRGC.

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2 years ago

AMAZING NEWS!!!

At its 35th special session, the UN Human Rights Council voted to create a new fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran related to the protests that began on 16 September 2022.

Proof that our activism has worked. Let’s keep the pressure on and hold the Islamic Republic accountable for crimes against humanity.

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SOS

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3 years ago

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8 months ago

REDnote is legit so different. Chinese gov is an anocracy but they don't play around with their own peoples mental health in public propaganda.

This is my fyp over there.

ik we all talk about the Algorithm in broad terms these days but it is kinda crazy that they're able to quantify stuff like this. nothing about the way these apps function is an accident or a coincidence..

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3 years ago

Huxley vs. Orwell

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1 year ago

yall look at this shit ad*be is tryna pull now on ppl who have outdated software:

(note for context: i’m all for piracy, but in this case my copy of CS6 was downloaded years ago when they were giving it away to students. i got it totally legally.)

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2 years ago

It looks bad in Iran tonight.

Armed police is shooting randomly at everything that moves in Tehran.

Even my friend who had a good working VPN tells me their internet is fucked.

That means fewer information getting out.

It seems the more support the protests get, the harsher the regime responds.

They don't have any qualms to kill and incarcerate their people.

On the other hand, politicians, the influential and wealthy are sending their own kids abroad right now.

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