Assume it was AI generated. It was prompted by a human and a human chose to share it. Curation is a human artwork. The choice to share is the human connection.

If it were that easy, companies would have far fewer problems with job interviews.

Oral exams hit their own problems of tester bias. In engineering, women tend to do worse on oral exams than written. That had been chalked up to just differences in learning styles, but I heard that an investigation at my university found it was the way instructors phrased questions or pressured for answers that changed. So you need someone giving the oral exams who is trained to ask the questions the same way -- except that standardization is exactly what makes oral exams better... you can probe for what the student actually knows.

There are no good objective answers to the subjective question of what does a student know.

THIS. I had pounded out so many for loops. And the opportunity to solve actually hard algorithm and data structure problems were few and far between. This has given new life to my career by taking out all the stuff I have typed a thousand times. I focus on the unique issues that LLM does not do as well with.

If junior spent 6 months, that means this was done with early gen tech. The game changed big time in January and again in April. Would have again last week if Fable was still out. These are not minor skill jumps. They are akin to a human taking years of skill growth. Any true statement about agentic capabilities is only good for a few weeks before it has to be re-evaluated.

The bidet has entered the chat⦠:-)

To be fair, the ground shifted really fast compared to most tech adoption rates. Even those of us who were following the tech developments and knew the options explored by science fiction found (find!) it hard to believe the speed of industry change. My job is not the same as two months ago, definitely not the same as 6 months ago.

I know a second grade class where all but two kids have a smartphone of their own. Given all the evidence of just how bad that is, I am baffled. Many of these are parents who worry about seatbelts and healthy school lunches. But blinders on the phone issue. I do not understand why.

The researchers started off thinking this was a medical problem. If it was a toxin or virus, that would be a concern. I don't think their intention was to say that teen pregnancies were something to champion, only that it was concerning that it was happening and we didn't know why.

Read through the rest of the article -- the researchers directly tackled each of the possible other explanations that you suggested and ruled them out. Your instincts are good for hypothesis testing, but the data in the article says those were tested.

I take it you missed the part of the article that mentioned that the iPhone also directly links to the rise in teen suicides.

That similarity is because the movie was based on extrapolating on the same research that was working on AI at the time. It is always possible (and science fiction's job) to do that extrapolation to show us what could be. But Ian Banks' "The Culture" is also in that same bootstrapped future. And plenty of others.

Buy the physical book for your local library. Libraries in USA regularly redistribute duplicates to other libraries, so no concerns if it is a common book.

By implication, some people are tools. :-)