The email is ominously titled “Final Reminder : The Importance of AI” and flagged “High Importance” when it’s just an ad.

Rest of it goes on about how they got a wallstreet bro to come give a speech about “AI replacing 40% of the jobs.”

Idk why a university likes AI this much either. They even overlook cheating as long as it involves AI.
Both students and graders tell each other they use it openly.

At first it felt weird I am complaining about free accounts and free speeches from investors but then it kinda clicked these are NOT free either. My tuition is paying for all of this.

Even the bus pass has a 5-day sign up process to “save money from students not using that service.”

But somehow they just arbitrarily gave everyone multiple premium chatbot accounts anyways.

Am I just paying a 50% ransom to microsoft for my degree at this point?

Also the email is AI generated too. ITS FROM THE FUCKING DEAN.

    • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
      426·
      2 天前

      This probably is written by someone who thinks using ai at all is cheating. Rather, it’s a practical tool and if you know how to use it, it makes the job faster and allows one to do more. They should be teaching students to use AI - if something can be done better with AI, businesses will want people to use it. Yes, doing some work without is good - just like we teach kids to do some math without calculators, but at some point we don’t care because the goal is being able to get shit done efficiently with whatever tools you have.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        212·
        2 天前

        The point of University is to teach people how to reason. Teaching people how to use AI literally does the exact opposite.

        • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
          23·
          1 天前

          I disagree. Figuring out how to do stuff effectively with AI - and figuring out what can be accomplished with human intelligence augmented with AI is where we need to be.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        101·
        2 天前

        It’s not like using AI is some elusive skill that needs a while lot of training, the whole point is that it in and of itself responds to natural language and responds in kind.

        Now building AI systems, training, prompt stuffing, etc, those do warrant some education, but using them… The biggest thing to teach is that their apparent confidence is untethered from their accuracy, but that hardly calls for a significant role in education.

        With progressing to calculators, you are offloading basic fundamental tedium to chase larger complexities. Biggest issue there is what complexities are you chasing using the LLM that the LLM can’t do in an education context? Keep in mind that for evaluation in education, we frankly don’t push things into the unknown, because the evaluator has to know that it is solvable, how it is solvable, and the solutions should be viable as a basis of comparison between students. Pretty much the moment it becomes fodder for education or job interviews, LLMs are going to be pretty good at just doing the whole thing. It’s still moderately useless for my professional area, but it can largely whip up a slack knockoff with no problem. A colleague told to evaluate LLM “right now” resorted to “interview ware” for lack of better ideas and it knocked it out of the park and got him excited, then when he tried to put it to work on less well trodden work and was shocked that it had deteriorated to totally useless when he actually needed it.

        In short, acknowledge the models and platforms and their usages, but I dont think they should factor significantly for students or job interviews.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    10·
    23 小时前

    I am writing to you today with a sense of urgency and opportunity

    What the bloody hell does that mean? You can do something with a sense of urgency, but how do you do something with a sense of opportunity?

    You can tell a world class orator to wrote this can’t you?

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      2 天前

      This was inevitable when all academic institutions were taken over by MBA sociopaths who have no concept of how anything works beyond “line goes up”.

      • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        2 天前

        Endowments drive me insane. They don’t get used to do anything. Just giant dragon hoards.

        My alma mater could probably give half a million people free tuition by using its endowment, and they have the gall to beg me for donations and I’m still paying off my loans.

        • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
          2·
          23 小时前

          Your alma matter sounds like mine. Their endowment funds are billions of dollars large, but they still have the gall to be “all in” on collecting more. All while their staff are forever striking and churning managers because they pay absolute shit and they do all the gross things to their people that billion dollar corporations do. I’m disgusted I went there sometimes. That I bought into the bullshit for a little bit. Still have never donated a cent though, and never will.

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
      3·
      23 小时前

      I’m not so sure in the grand scheme we are.

      We are all so burnt out and so jaded, in an economy thats so flat and moribund, in a world that’s so fucking upside down, that somethings got to give.

      These asshole greedy pig CEOs are going to have a complete mess on their hands, when this AI bubble (because it’s a bubble) pops, and it’s going to be a complete mess. We are going to see companies implode literally overnight, borrowing is going to lock up, and it’s going to fuck up supply chains. At a time when they need people to bear down, but everyones been forced to RTO against their will, for flat paychecks while these assholes hoard all the cash flow for themselves at staggering levels.

      Personally I think it’s going to make the Great Resignation look like a picnic. I’m not always right, in fact I seldom am sometimes, but I’m starting to think the pendulum swings wildly in the employees favor on this one. When shit goes sideways, that’s going to also be the moment of the boomer implosion, where all the seventy year old execs and the mid to later 50s guys and gals leave with the bags, and I mean the job needs done, now in a challenging environment maybe. But you’ve pissed most of your employees off with this AI shit and their flat paychecks, to the point where sure they are hanging on collecting a cheque, but most everybody has quiet quit on you. Could be interesting, maybe.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      4·
      23 小时前

      We hardly even ever em dashes in normal writing, so who knows where LLMs picked up the tendency. Hyphen’s sure, but em dashes?

      I have a 1940s cookbook that has a lot of them in but they haven’t really been used in modern type settings since then.

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 天前

    My sister just went back to school to get her engineering degree and they make them all sign up for a program called handshake? It tries pretty desperately to schill work from home jobs training AI. And they literally all read like scams.

    • Finalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 天前

      Every US college/community college shills handshake. Mine forced me to burn a vacation day to sit in their orientation and they tried to sell handshake as some unique perk as if I hadn’t seen it at every other school I’d attended. I was furious.

    • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 天前

      Can’t wait to get paid for several months deliberately sabotaging AI until someone realizes what I’m up to

  • cloudskater@pawb.socialEnglish
    101·
    1 天前

    Are you fucking kidding me? A school supporting AI, it’s worst enemy? Genuinely disgusting.

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
    241·
    1 天前

    No one who frames LLMs as AI should be taken seriously. The only legitimate association between the 2 is in fiction, ridicule, and jest.

    LLMs are, at their core, regurgitation recipes of beige Solent, refried at vague temperatures in non-deterministic air fryers, which were originally designed as HVAC systems.

    I’m sure there are legitimately useful toys LLMs can be applied as, but I’m yet to observe any. One thing is for sure, a tornado in their horse wombs will never birth a submarine.

    I’ll take AI seriously once an instance of Natural Intelligence is identified.

    • KittyCat@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 天前

      I’ve found they make for a great movie search engine giving a vague description of the plot, but besides that I haven’t found a use.

      • smh@slrpnk.net
        1·
        1 天前

        I like them for helping me dig through very thorough documentation to help me find the right setting to change, in a tool I rarely touch.

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
      3·
      24 小时前

      Use it against them. Remember the distortion can work with you, as well as against you.

      My work was doing the whole “AI AI AI, use AI” blah blah blah thing. I used it at my annual review, where I showed I should have both an executive title and my salary should be about $200k higher. I also told my team and my fellow coworkers to do the same.

      It’s funny how we haven’t heard boo from the executive about AI for about 3 or 4 months now.

      This goes both ways, right? Malicious compliance and all of that.

    • khaleer@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 天前

      I did essay this way for some bullshit AI lessons on univ. Not gonna waste my time on this topic tbh.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    411·
    2 天前

    If LLM’s could do everything that the CEO’s have promised, they wouldn’t be rolling out porn generators to gin up usage.

    This is Theranos 2.0, and while LLM’s can be a useful tool in some ways, it’s clear to anyone who uses it regularly that the promises don’t jive with the functionality, and I don’t see how we get it there when they’ve already trained on the whole of human knowledge and they still can’t figure out basic queries.