Part of the problem is that people recall the summer of 2020, when riots paralysed American cities after a cop murdered ...

The machine was never the threat. Handing it the thinking is. Aim it at what students care about, and they can make what we ...

Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

Landy on Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression. A critical theorist reformulates the concept of progress as social-reflexive problem-solving.

The principal difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this representative assembly,” John Adams wrote in his 1776 Thoughts on Government ess ...

Large language models can write essays, summarize legal clauses, explain ancient history, draft emails, and produce code that looks impressively official. Then you ask one to multiply two awkward ...

I hate the phrase “common sense”. There, I said it. This is phrase that pisses me off even more, if possible, than “think of the children”. When someone invokes the phrase “common sense” they are ...

What is an IT report? The purpose of reports is to aid decision making and problem solving, and therefore they are usually more problem and action oriented than essays. While reports vary in the type ...

SINGAPORE – Using a mix of sensors, robots and AI, an ongoing study is teaching urban planners how to make Singapore’s neighbourhoods safer for its ageing population. It starts by getting seniors to ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

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