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MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

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Re: MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

#11

You can think what you like about MIT, but at least they're giving it some thought, however perfunctory it may seem. Many German universities prefer to try and ignore the issue and hope for the best.

I mostly think about what they did to Aaron Swartz.

Re: MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

#12

You can think what you like about MIT, but at least they're giving it some thought, however perfunctory it may seem. Many German universities prefer to try and ignore the issue and hope for the best.

I mostly think about what they did to Aaron Swartz.

They also formed committees and investigated after the fact back then!

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post #6

I think this has been going on well before AI or LLMs: "A fundamental danger, as we’ve discussed, is that AI can allow students to bypass learning. Equally concerning is that students may internalize a transactional model in which assignments are outputs, teachers are evaluators, peers are optional, and knowledge (or an MIT degree) is an optimizable commodity to be acquired or produced as efficiently as possible."

Ok, but did AI and LLMs make the cheating easier, faster, harder to detect? Whatabout the past doesn't change the problems now.

"My leg already had a cut on it. No need to worry about the new stab wound in my chest!"

Re: MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

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post #4

This is a bunch of fluff. I hope at least the snacks and lunches during the discussions were good. "Guiding principles: Be bold. Be humble. Put humanity front and center. Lean into learning. Teach with intentionality. No one size fits all." "Recommendations: Adapt educational processes for an AI-aware world. Center people, community, and the residential experience. Build processes, teams and tools for continuous refl…

> This is a bunch of fluff. Accurate description.

“Boy, these guys are just [your typical Bill Lumberghs] with upper management written all over them.”

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#15

"Be bold" by saying nothing of any interest. I have to agree that this is basically just fluff. Anyone put it into pangram yet?

97% human-written

I guess prolific em-dashes is not considered a sign of LLM writing anymore.

Re: MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

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post #6

I think this has been going on well before AI or LLMs: "A fundamental danger, as we’ve discussed, is that AI can allow students to bypass learning. Equally concerning is that students may internalize a transactional model in which assignments are outputs, teachers are evaluators, peers are optional, and knowledge (or an MIT degree) is an optimizable commodity to be acquired or produced as efficiently as possible."

Ok, but did AI and LLMs make the cheating easier, faster, harder to detect? Whatabout the past doesn't change the problems now. "My leg already had a cut on it. No need to worry about the new stab wound in my chest!"

Absolutely; it's a real problem. But institutions like MIT have also been participating in, and benefiting from, this transactional relationship from their side in offering degrees that they know carry so much value.

Re: MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

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post #9

This is a bunch of fluff. I hope at least the snacks and lunches during the discussions were good. "Guiding principles: Be bold. Be humble. Put humanity front and center. Lean into learning. Teach with intentionality. No one size fits all." "Recommendations: Adapt educational processes for an AI-aware world. Center people, community, and the residential experience. Build processes, teams and tools for continuous refl…

I hope AI was used to generate those empty words. What a waste of human effort.

Human slopality

Re: MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

#18

This is a bunch of fluff. I hope at least the snacks and lunches during the discussions were good. "Guiding principles: Be bold. Be humble. Put humanity front and center. Lean into learning. Teach with intentionality. No one size fits all." "Recommendations: Adapt educational processes for an AI-aware world. Center people, community, and the residential experience. Build processes, teams and tools for continuous refl…

They have always dressed it up as concerned humanitarianism. They did it already with large donations in the past:

https://www.philanthropy.com/news/can-a-350-million-gift-cha...

All concerns, while the real goal is stated right in the article:

"With this new approach, he says, experts in many fields can gain a deeper understanding of AI so they can better harness it. Meanwhile, computing experts are gaining greater exposure to the work of their counterparts in other fields. That exposure is giving the technologists a better understanding of how to create and train AI tools to better serve others."

I'm sure they will have many meetings about future meetings.

Re: MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

#19

This is a bunch of fluff. I hope at least the snacks and lunches during the discussions were good. "Guiding principles: Be bold. Be humble. Put humanity front and center. Lean into learning. Teach with intentionality. No one size fits all." "Recommendations: Adapt educational processes for an AI-aware world. Center people, community, and the residential experience. Build processes, teams and tools for continuous refl…

It's going to be difficult not to be "fluffy" as no one really knows the true impact and what's going to happen. And it's especially challenging for universities as voices questioning the value of higher education will only grow louder.

Re: MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

#20

You can think what you like about MIT, but at least they're giving it some thought, however perfunctory it may seem. Many German universities prefer to try and ignore the issue and hope for the best.

How is this interesting? Sincerely?

Tell us more about how MIT giving AI some thought compares superiorly to 'many German universities', and please tell us more about which German universities and in which circumstances.

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