The complication is that AI does not really plagiarize, in the way that someone copying an image or a block of text and passing it off as their own is plagiarizing. The AI stores only the weights from its pretraining, not the underlying text it trained on, so it reproduces a work with similar characteristics but not a direct copy of the original pi

A contrasting philosophy, active learning, reduces the importance of the lecture, asking students to participate in the learning process through activities like problem-solving, group work, and hands-on exercises. In this approach, students collaborate with one another and the instructor to apply what they’ve learned. Multiple studies support the g

AI does not need to be catastrophic. In fact, we can plan for the opposite. J. R. R. Tolkien wrote about exactly this, a situation he termed a eucatastrophe, so common in fairy tales: “the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous ‘turn’ … is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the hypothetical machine that would be smarter than a human,

Then there are Automated Tasks, ones you leave completely to the AI and don’t even check on. Perhaps there is a category of email that you just let AI deal with, for example. This is likely to be a very small category … for now.

One solution to incorporating more active learning is by “flipping” classrooms. Students would learn new concepts at home, typically through videos or other digital resources, and then apply what they’ve learned in the classroom through collaborative activities, discussions, or problem-solving exercises. The main idea behind flipped classrooms is t

Principle 1: Always invite AI to the table.

One prominent AI critic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, is so concerned about the possibility that he suggested that there be a complete moratorium on AI development,4 enforced by air strikes on any data center that was suspected of engaging in AI training, even if that led to global war.

These new types of AI, called Large Language Models (LLMs), are still doing prediction, but rather than predicting the demand for an Amazon order, they are analyzing a piece of text and predicting the next token, which is simply a word or part of a word. Ultimately, that is all ChatGPT does technically—act as a very elaborate autocomplete like you