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Comment Um... (Score 5, Insightful) 97

AI Firms Say They Can't Respect Copyright

Pretty sure it's not really up to them, legally.

A group of more than two dozen AI researchers have found that they could build a massive eight-terabyte dataset using only text that was openly licensed or in public domain.

So it's really more like "won't" than "can't" ...

Comment Re:50/50 (Score 1) 181

This would have been great advice 45 years ago. lol

As it is, I can do what I need and I work more slowly these days (by design) so typing speed isn't an issue for me at this point.

But for those getting started, it's good advice and I'd suggest following it. Start slow, get the movement-memory and accuracy down pat, and then and *only* then start to work on speed.

Comment 50/50 (Score 5, Insightful) 181

I've been hunting & pecking for decades and although I'm reasonably fast, I 100% agree that learning touch typing would have sped me up. It didn't keep me from getting where I was going but, as a touch typist I likely would have gotten there a bit sooner.

Plus, the faster you type the faster you can make mistaeks. So there's that bonus too.

Comment Re: Trust us. (Score 1) 82

Thatâ(TM)s why the OS has protections to limit each appâ(TM)s access to data from other apps. Allow side-loading, but require multiple warnings to install any app that doesnâ(TM)t participate in sandboxing. Make it scary enough that nobody installs non-sandboxed apps unless they are backup apps, and even then, only after carefully vetting the source.

Comment Shocking (Score 1) 55

Chinese student enrollment at American universities has dropped to 277,000 in the 2023-24 academic year, down from a peak of 372,000 in 2019-20 ... The decline accelerated following the State Department's May 28th announcement of an "aggressive" campaign to revoke visas for Chinese students in "critical fields" of science and engineering

From the Gee-I-Wonder-Why-That's-Happening Dept

Submission + - What Will Universities Look Like Post-ChatGPT? (cameronharwick.com) 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Lots of people are sounding the alarm on AI cheating in college.

Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences? After spending the better part of the past two years grading AI-generated papers, Troy Jollimore, a poet, philosopher, and Cal State Chico ethics professor, has concerns. “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

Economist Cameron Harwick says it's on professors to respond, and it's going to look like relying more on tests and not on homework—which means a diploma will have to be less about intelligence and more about agency and discipline.

This approach significantly raises the stakes of tests. It violates a longstanding maxim in education, that successful teaching involves quick feedback: frequent, small assignments that help students gauge how they’re doing, graded, to give them a push to actually do it.... Unfortunately, this conventional wisdom is probably going to have to go. If AI makes some aspect of the classroom easier, something else has to get harder, or the university has no reason to exist.

The signal that a diploma sends can’t continue to be “I know things”. ChatGPT knows things. A diploma in the AI era will have to signal discipline and agency – things that AI, as yet, still lacks and can’t substitute for. Any student who makes it through such a class will have a credible signal that they can successfully avoid the temptation to slack, and that they have the self-control to execute on long-term plans.

Comment Re:It's not the comma's fault (Score 1) 97

The dispute centers on Article 5.4, which requires gatekeepers to allow business users "free of charge, to communicate and promote offers, including under different conditions [...], and to conclude contracts with those end users."

A rational reading of this sentence would not pair "free of charge" with only first phrase "to communicate and promote offers." If the "free of charge" were meant to apply only to that first clause, the second clause would have been separated into a different sentence altogether.

I agree. In addition, I've noticed, and rewritten, sentences like this in things I've written, like letters/emails, as the single list would have been misleading.

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