Can we PLEASEEEE not shoehorn "TIL" into being just another repository for news stories? Imagine if I posted in here every day saying "oohhh today I learned what temperature it is outside today". Clearly against the spirit of the community. Yes, its good information... So please put it where it belongs so that people can easily find it and easily find other things too, rather than mishmoshing all our posts into one unfilterable, uncategorizable blob

Has the MIT published a report on how it'll try to get AI to commit suicide over copyright infringement?

even a random idiot could have called that last point.

the ground work for this was laid when search engines were useful. People would stop thinking, they'd just break out the phone and search for the solution to any problem.. and they never retained the information, because the brain isnt designed to retain information in situations where you can pull the magic slab out of your pocket to do 3 seconds of problem solving for you.

and its only gotten worse with AI. There are people who literally cant even function without an AI telling them what to do anymore, Its taken over their entire lives and doing almost everything for them except telling them when and how to go to the bathroom.. and I wager it wont be long before we start having people pissing and shitting themselves because their AI didnt tell them they should go to the bathroom.

This will not change. This will continue because every one of those things hold short term benefits for individuals, long term be damned.

No study groups? Students will see that as a win.

No office hours? More convenient for students. Professors / admin save time or money.

Homework and tests No longer work means Students and professors wont have to do them, or no longer spend much time on them.

Students lose mastery and confidence means more reliant on AI, and there is no way this is lost on tech bros as a selling point.

The free market WILL NOT solve this problem. These are classic externalities and capitalism DGAF about problems that don't show up on the cost ledger.

Notice that these are also all ways to eliminate the few remaining places where people actually first meet in person, realize they have things in common, form groups/relationships, organize towards common goals...

It's like they just want two people, sitting in separate rooms, depressed and constantly delivered targeted messages they control about how the other person, in the other room, hates and judges them.

I had Claude read the results. Sounds like the changes are all positive and nobody should rethink their investments or effect on society at all

TIL is supposed to be like an interesting or suprising fact. or an easy overlooked lifehack.
this is like randomly picking a research paper and having chatgpt summarize it, then post it as TIL .
additionally, do we even know that this is a fact? its really just the outcome of their own case study. it probably says something about the intersection of education and technology at the current moment. but that could all change in less than a year.

If it's a month old, it's probably news vs TIL.

I don’t think the news should be in TIL. TIL should be for info the details of which has been around for quite a while.

Appreciate the summary, although I don't even like holding office hours so I don't mind that. The rest are depressing, though.

That said... my own experience doesn't match up on the take-homes being useless. My God the way answers math problems are so bizarrely incorrect that I've given more 0s than I have in my entire fucking life.

At least, upside, my holistic approach with a lot of discussion, projects and oral components to assignments are really shining. Helps that my classes are only 25 max though- I can't imagine how bad 80-300 classes are.

How to solve this, then, from these bullet points:

Hire more grad assistants. Get them to administer one-on-one oral defenses —they’ll only need 10 minutes or less — of the undergraduates’ take-home exams. Watch the undergrads fucking crumple and get washed out. Those who are left are the ones who’d use office hours and study groups anyway.

I hate this so much

AI will not make people more productive

The conclusion of the report looks like they are all in on saturating their university with ai use

This is long, but worth reading. It probably was warranted at the onset of the internet to be honest; education has changed so little despite memorization to pass a test in many subjects being worth little in the real world now. It would be supremely ironic if the suddeness of the onset of AI and the fact that institutions/educators/learners are all existentially terrified that it can actually led to critical mass that allows for updating the educational model in the US. It won't change the rapacious nature of current actors but hopefully can allow society to better manage and process what is being forced on us by PE.

Silver lining is that even before AI, courses were bloated with busywork. Though it likely won't happen, there's a possibility that trimming down on coursework would save a lot of people a lot of time.