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An analysis of 370,000 college student essays found that human-written essays contain 8X more novel ideas than those generated by A.I! Though AI works often contain more flowery language, story lines are more homogeneous and lack distinctive ideas. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...
Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity nytimes.com
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Ben Williamson
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"OpenAI could soon be selling young people a one-stop-shop for learning, credentials and a job, all heavily dependent on its tools." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Big AI is trying to own the pathway to work. Universities shouldn’t play along | Ella Hafermalz theguardian.com
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Human thought is thought to be systematic: Do reasoning models have systematicity of thought? With @brendenlake.bsky.social we study this question in our new preprint arxiv.org/abs/2609.13948 Thread 🧵
Thought without systematicity? Evaluating reasoning models on rule induction tasks arxiv.org
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Well, this is timely. A paper published Friday gets remarkably close to the question I was poking at. Can deep models bootstrap from simpler patterns into abstract concepts? And they test with Bongard problems too. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion theguardian.com
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Fintan Mallory
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A billion years ago, I wrote a paper arguing that it can be helpful to view artificial neural networks as stochastic measuring devices. It has come officially out: academic.oup.com/book/63302/c...
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Terence Tao says AI companies are harming mathematics by dropping new results without engaging with academia. “These companies are dumping carcasses of raw meat onto our table and saying ‘here you go, I solved your food problem’ and then they just leave." www.newscientist.com/…
Terence Tao: AI companies are harming mathematics | New Scientist newscientist.com
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I was talking to someone today who framed K–12 AI discourse as between 1) hard bans and 2) families worried that schools aren't preparing kids to use AI. I told them I didn't really know many families in camp #2. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Poll: Most Americans think AI is doing more harm than good in schools nbcnews.com
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Back in 2022, I wrote up a quirky, Haugeland-inspired piece about different understandings of "mindedness" and whether language models meet them. It's finally out in a really fascinating volume of essays! academic.oup.com/book/63302/c...
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AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose Human experts are better than LLMs at nuanced word choice and actively generated prose reflects these expert sensitivities better than passively approved prose. schwitzsplinters.blogspo…
AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com
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