AI’s great brain robbery — and how universities can fight back

Niall Ferguson:

ChatGPT and its like have swept through academia, changing how students work, write and think. The bots are here to stay, so we need to reimagine learning

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To make it pedagogical, LLM is an autocomplete function that randomizes based on the statistical frequency:

  • Probability matching: if in the frequency space, the autocomplete is at 85% “take an umbrella” and 1/10^6 “have squid ink”, it will do 85% of the time “take an umbrella”.
  • “Temperature” setting: you can pick up to 100% the highest probability: “take an umbrella”.

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