the user dumped their entire college computer files in Claude in a last-gasp effort
That's what AI is good at, and what the user couldn't do themselves. Find the right signal buried in a massive pile of noise.
Google's Gemini app now has more than 650 million monthly active users, compared to OpenAI's 800 million weekly active users.
Apparently not intelligent enough to convert numbers into the same unit before comparing them.
They didn't buy Red Hat for the people, they bought it for the Intellectual Property.
Red Hat doesn't have any intellectual property to speak of. Their products are all open source.
The news from higher education invariably falls into one of two categories:
Is this an accurate reflection of reality? I have no idea. But from the perspective of an employer, looking for evidence that a candidate is educated (as opposed to indoctrinated), degrees are looking increasingly worthless.
I did a STEM degree at a UK university. Every course was assessed with in-person, proctored exams - didn't matter if the course was remote or not. Even the final dissertation included a proctored exam to confirm that the work was actually mine.
LLMs haven't created a new problem, they've just democratised an old one. Rich students have been outsourcing essays for years; now anyone with a browser can do the same.
The cat’s out of the bag with AI. If universities are serious about academic integrity, there’s still a simple fix: sit students in a room and test what they actually know.
"bulldozing Palestinian homes to build Israeli ones" occurs when they're built without planning permission, which happens in every country, including Israeli homes. It's just that when the country is Israel, and the illegal builder is Palestinian, it becomes an International incident.
By the way did you know that Jews aren't allowed to live in the Palestinian territories, and that under Palestinian law, selling land to a Jew is a capital offence?
The reason why "finding a peaceful resolution" has consistently failed is that the Palestinians have responded to every serious offer by starting a war.
There have been several opportunities for a Palestinian state, but unfortunately each time it becomes a possibility, they prove that their only true national aspiration is to kill as many Jews as possible.
Out of interest, what would your country do if a neighbour invaded its territory and slaughtered its citizens? By the USA's own admission, Israel is doing more than Western powers to protect enemy civilians during wartime.
Perhaps the allies should have surrendered to the Nazis, or arranged a ceasefire when they got to Berlin, to spare German civilian casualties? At least the Wehrmacht didn't make a strategy out of using their own population as human shields.
War is tragic, and firing from behind civilian infrastructure doesn't grant an automatic victory. Palestinian suffering will be over when they choose to build a better life for themselves instead of waging a genocidal war against others.
The comments to this article are, unsurprisingly, full of propaganda and bigotry, with no reasonable discussion of the technology or how it's deployed.
That's why we can no longer have civil discourse. Every topic has to get pulled some absolutist politicised position, nothing can be discussed on its merits. Furthermore, no grey areas, where there are at multiple, often subjective, aspects to an issue and reasonable people may differ, are allowed.
They may deny raises for years, fail to supply resources while piling on demands, give feedback designed to frustrate and confuse, or grant privileges to select workers based on vague, inconsistent performance standards.
How's that different to the typical office environment?
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
