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"I’ll admit, I had to read this story a couple of times, since it’s so
unbelievable. With the explosion of AI tools that have come out over the past
couple of years, coming along for the ride are all kinds of concerns over how
that AI gets used. In the realm of higher education, this means a great deal of
consternation over concerns about students using these tools to cheat. While
these concerns sure seem wildly overblown, the flipside of this issue has been
the use of all kinds of software tools billed as “anti-cheating” programs for
schools to use to make sure students are student-ing legitimately.
But, man, whatever the hell is going on with the folks at Emory University is
simply bizarre. A group of students are suing the school after being suspended
for a year over an AI program they built called “Eightball,” which is designed
to automagically review course study material within the school’s software
where professors place those study materials and develop flashcards, study
materials for review, and the like. The only problem is that the school not
only knew all about Eightball, it
paid these same students $10,000 to make
it."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
