Students are struggling to get work after graduating because they're dropped into a competitive environment. Ideals aren't enough to get jobs in the current environment.
Universities should be places which are at the bleeding edge of development and providing society with the best new ideas/tech, etc has to offer. Junior workers should be hotbeds of exciting talent which have the ability to revolutionise industries.
By creating such milquetoast environments to study in, which are seemingly scared or unable to prepare people for the future, students are being done a disservice.
Far too many people are far too comfortable with their cushty positions, and it's not doing the youth any favours.
Im confused, are you suggesting students using AI to do their assignments for them and have them learn nothing will benefit them more or less in the future when they entire a competitive environment?
Is this all an elite educational institution with about $50bil in assets could muster, lol? This is completely and utterly unenforceable, and such, worthless.
There really needs to be diversity in delivery styles for different modules of courses according to their aims, with 'ai access' as a key variable.
If AI is allowed, it should be based on $x of usage/student, with an audit trail to prove no external funding was used, and module aims based on using AI to the max while conserving token use. Like actually creating wild, ambitious shit which takes cutting edge services to the max.
If AI is not allowed for a module, then it really needs to go back to the old skool, with handwritten exams, or coding using old machines and textbooks. Some skills, techniques, etc, really do need drilling.
Straddling the middle will help nobody, result in accusations, increase the burden on teaching staff, and result in a course without a realistic focus.
Though I guess if you're a big brand university, you don't really need to care about innovating. The money will keep pouring in. The whole further education sector is in dire need of a shake up.
I don’t really know why this is getting downvoted. It’s clear that higher education is degrading because of easy to reach AI solutions that have no type of penalties for use.
During my undergrad it was normal to see people refer to Chegg solutions to get their answers, or as a friend for theirs.
Maybe there’s a reason my first CS professor wrote out Java code with pencil and paper I guess.
For those who don't use it already, the following is a great compilation of curated block lists you can put into your etc/hosts file to block traffic :)
Isn't it a natural pattern in empire? Everything grows, there's a huge administration class employed who manage to live in relative luxury from the profits, then as relative power and influence recedes, those jobs are the first to get cut.
It's an international market and everybody's using the same skills and tools. It's insane to think that 6 digit salaries would forever be sustainable when the rest of the world is doing the same stuff.
Developing tech to knock down barriers also paves over moats. I think the west is going to be in for some very trying times in the coming decades. The UK is a fascinating place to look at in this regard.
Well it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the capital class, the "responsible" owners of the economy. Everyone knows that credit goes to capital and blame goes to workers!
Should just buy air.com at this point and market themselves as a one-stop shop for all expat/travel services. I guess their competition is approaching the likes of Revolut.
I was involved in something similar to an 'expat hub', with monthly subscriptions; being a middleman between expats and 'everything local'. We reached profitability very quickly, and we got close to launching some seriously innovative products before Covid wiped us out.
A company the size of Airbnb would be perfectly placed to be a digital nomad companion app.
I thought it was established that mountains follow a cycle of being born, then being eroded back into the ocean, and that life thrives through this 'release' of minerals extracted from the core
I wanted to know from the article where this 'super range' was actually located, and to see an old map (preferably animated) which co-incides with the current evidence left behind. It's fascinating learning how the current make up of the Earth is carved throughout billions of years of processes.
In an age where AI can do so much, it's so sad that quality is not improving. An apparent salaried writer with 7 years experience, backed by a company with nearly a billion in revenue, and this is the end game :/
Thanks :) Love reading how the far far past influences what we see today. Trying to build a mental map of how endogenic systems of the planet create the field on which exogenic systems play on.
Your link's led me to the Warren Bioregion in SW Australia, and to what extent its geological/bioregional sibling to parts of South Africa.
I think the term 'social media' has outlived its purpose. It's too vague to be used in discussion. 'Social' seems a bit redundant, as isn't most media inherently social?
It's quite a nice, flattering term for these companies. They get to advertise their platforms as being 'social' (bringing people closer together, having firneds), and 'media' (wow look at all these fun, cool pics and videos!), when in reality, it's kinda the opposite.
I think we need to start naming things based on who actually owns these companies, the essence of their operations, and where they generate the most of their revenues from. Ad Platforms? Surveillance Boards?
It's a privilege for these tech companies to operate in these nations, not a right.
If they can't demonstrate positive value, then countries are absolutely right to cut out a cancer.
I'm hugely in favour of more regulation with more revenue/users. If my income tax scales, so should the penalties associated their wealth extraction models. Ideally these big tech firms should be eliminating all the negative externalities associated with their use, either through funding systems, or a direct tax on revenue.
The privacy side is worrying, but does Meta, Google, etc products are the antithesis of privacy anyway. Anything which burns their model and ideologies to the ground is a welcome change. As long as these draconian regulations only impact the hugest companies who don't demonstrate positive value, I think it's ok. If they start coming for smaller sites, message boards, etc, then it's a problem.
Provides many opportunities for cheaper and more scalable methods of terrorism.
Don't need to actually get explosives on board, just a bluetooth device. Manage to get 10 planes at once, and you've got a nice bit of chaos on your hands.
Wonder how easy it'd be to reverse pickpocket some fitbits into jackets left laying around before you catch your flight to a 'non-aligned country'.
Could cause lots of havoc with pre-planted speakers, too. Setting off random sirens at maximum volume, telling people to evacuate, etc. I wonder what the security solution would be if people started causing terror via text and sound.
Universities should be places which are at the bleeding edge of development and providing society with the best new ideas/tech, etc has to offer. Junior workers should be hotbeds of exciting talent which have the ability to revolutionise industries.
By creating such milquetoast environments to study in, which are seemingly scared or unable to prepare people for the future, students are being done a disservice.
Far too many people are far too comfortable with their cushty positions, and it's not doing the youth any favours.
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