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Established AI research Development 11d ago
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Brown professor class AI cheating

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

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Casey Fiesler Jason Koebler Rafael Pinto Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dare Obasanjo Stephen Turner Jeffrey Vagle By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, i…”

“this rules www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...”

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Casey Fiesler: Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But …
Casey Fiesler: This data is absolutely wild. The mean midterm score was 96, and the mean final score was 48. The *mode* midterm score was 100. The professor says that he intentionally made the midterm harder, and…
Casey Fiesler: Brown University also just released a report on gen AI based in part on a survey of students. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul... 88% of undergrads indicated concerns about the impact of gen AI use o…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

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Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Luke Stark Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Dr J. Rosenbaum +1

“For ideas on how to do that, see: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Established AI field signal Development 10d ago
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Nobel laureates AI economic action call

We Must Act Now

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Yoshua Bengio Olivia Guest Tim Kellogg tante Gillian Hadfield Jeffrey Vagle Paul Hünermund Michiel Bontenbal

“If current trajectories of AI development continue, it is highly plausible that AI will drastically transform our economies. We must make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind. di…”

“200 AI researchers and economists sign an open letter to policymakers www.wemustactnow.ai”

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tante: Oh, is it "AI is super powerful and we who are pushing for AI everywhere warn that we might have created a dangerous god from reddit posts" time of the month again? This is Anthropic/OpenAI PR and …
tante: nope that's it. These folks are getting lazier by the day
tante: Yeah. They spend just a handful of tokens on this website.
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2 experts · 12 posts · 5d ago
Andrew Selbst Jeffrey Vagle
Jeffrey Vagle: Putting together syllabus and materials for this fall's AI Law & Policy course, and the first two classes will be introducing the (very) basic math behind ML models, and I'm trying to find a way to…
Jeffrey Vagle: Similarly, re stochastic gradient descent, discussion of slopes and derivatives (or god forbid, partial derivatives).
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James Grimmelmann Jeffrey Vagle
James Grimmelmann: TBH, I suspect student or RA work rather than AI. The 2000 cutoff doesn’t track; if anything AI is better at working with more recent work that is more pervasively online.
James Grimmelmann: If it's AI, a problem like that is more likely to be the result of dumb prompting than clever prompting to avoid detection.
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