That would require that there are no more and no less than the materials required in existence. The problem students face is not lack of materials. The problem is they are faced with vastly more materials than they need and most do not yet have the skills to competently make a selection and structure structure what they selected.

Other than that, I agree with your statement.

Indeed. Also reminds me of a certain "stable genius".

I know how to use this stuff: Stay away from it, it adds nothing and wastes my time. Oh, I have one use: I currently have a student evaluate the major coding assistant and some general LLMs on how good they can judge code security. The results so far are that they work well for toy examples and not well or not at all for real situations. This may eventually get me a nice publication.

While I do not completely agree, the idea has merit.

Because this is happening in the USA? The land of fake peace plans and stolen elections, where nobody cares about the truth?

Fascinating. This is even worse than I thought. For this, there should be ample correct data in the training data set. But it still cannot do it. Well.

That might be the immediate cause, but it's really the apathetic middle class that allows it. They could easily out vote the extremists but they are just don't care. It means that these sorts of issues become captured by those who care the most - which is typically going to be people at the extremes.

It's like at my kids school - everyone bitched about how the people who ran the PTA were bossy and controlling. We then had that old guard move on, and we needed new people to lead it and, lo-and-behold, suddenly all the people who had complained became extremely busy and unable to get involved. Eventually those who did step up just got sick of trying to gently prod people into helping so just became...bossy and controlling.

Honestly the biggest enemy to the west is the abject apathy of the comfortable middle classes.

The reason scams like this are illegal is because there is always plenty of pople who believe this crap against all rationality. If regular people were able to fact-check, scammers would die out.

The home-user does not really matter in this. It is corporate users that provide basically all MS profits.

Then add Azure getting hacked and being massively insecure, several times now. Add that many people are looking into leaving o365 because MS blocked a user for political reasons.

MS is done for. They just will take quite a while dying. But there is no realistic chance they can turn things around anymore.

Yes. That should get this person barred for life from any research position. Had that gone on for longer, it would have done significant damage.

Lets face it: LLMs are somewhat better search, can summarize non-complex texts and can do simple, well-known work with not very good reliability. But that really is it. And that in no way justifies the hype.

There are other factors at work as well. But we will see what happens. Still, being well educated is always a huge advantage, even if it sometimes requires time to manifest. Obviously, if you study a BS subject or do not apply yourself, you will be screwed except in a boom.

Yellowstone needs to be drained of heat, otherwise it will burst the ugliest of bursts.

What nonsense. First, the most important part in teaching is to select the materials and structure them in a way that makes sense. Second is the actual teaching and anybody halfway competent does far more than just reading the slides. It is about demonstrating you know your stuff, the materials are worthwhile working through, you respect the time of the participants and any good lecture will also need a real entertainment factor.

I think you have never designed and then held a lecture. And if you ever have heard lectures, apparently they were not any good.