Don't forget Sinclair! Everyone forgets Sinclair. He's the one that put Firth's ideas into practice.

"What's the part number for the plastic plug thing on the thermostat housing of a 3.2l VR6 (Audi 8p)". It instantly came back WITH THE RIGHT ANSWER.

I, for one, welcome our new part-number-knowing overlords.

Really? I was still chalk+blackboard back then. i1.wp.com/www.lisarive...

I can cover matrix-vector notation in a week, with implementations in plain python and numpy (we get to pytorch later in term). It's not hard,. No reason for students to think they need a whole semester of linalg to do a comp ling class.

"Criminal federal search warrant"? I don't think that's a thing.

It's not even really true that the LLMs people interact with now are just reproducing statistical distributions. It's all the stuff around the next-word-predicting component that makes them so useful.

Greenspun's revenge

Whatever happens, we can be sure the faculty won't have any say in it. I hope you'd agree that, whatever the benefits AI might have for high ed, it can't be something that's imposed on us by an admin whose primary goal seems to be attracting good press.

What's missing from the commentary is that this "deal" was worked out with no consultation from the faculty and we still have no idea what it entails. Is it just a system-wide site license for ChatGPT? Are we all being fired and replaced with robots? I guess we'll find out!

If my math is right, the overhead collected JUST BY HARVARD would be enough to make up this year's cuts for the entire CSU.

We've had in-person meetings but no emails. They're trying to avoid communicating over channels that are subject to public records requests.