AI Has Already Killed Academia as We Know It

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29 points | by pseudolus 9 hours ago ago

12 comments

  • chris_money202 5 hours ago

    Flip the classroom, make students learn the material on their own (Using AI or whatever resources they want to use) and then in-classroom time is divided on working on problems (without AI assistance which can be controlled in this environment) and quizzes/exams (again without AI). We don't need lectures anymore, they are an incredibly ineffective way to learn.

    • theamk 4 hours ago

      I had some "reverse classroom" classes back in college, and it was the best kind of class for me. Read the papers on your own time before class, and spend class discussing and in tests.

      It did, however, absolutely require everyone to prepare for every class. Some people complained a lot about this, which might be why this was not as popular as more common lectures.

    • libraryU 3 hours ago

      I had a chat with my state legislators to streamline education; shift all public school and university funding to libraries staffed by SMEs

      Mandate N hours year of and guided group work for under 18s

      Mandate N hours for becoming an SME for roles that require such

      Break the pipeline from the factory era of linearly pumping out kids who are just smart enough to run the machines

  • magic_hamster 8 hours ago

    Solving the paper submission is easy. Just hold frontal interview where the submitter defends their paper. They can't create papers every day and still be knowledgeable about them in depth.

    We are hurling to a reality where the only noteworthy metric is human to human validation.

    • glial 7 hours ago

      Paper reviews are traditionally blinded, so the reviewer doesn't know the authorship of the paper they're reading.

    • SpicyLemonZest 8 hours ago

      If a journal finds that it's getting more papers than peer reviewers are willing to go through, how does a more heavyweight, synchronous review process solve the problem? Many researchers already find peer review requests annoying, they're not going to agree to hold a bunch of video calls.

      • watwut 8 hours ago

        Big part of the annoyance is that journals demand basically free labor - while costing massive amount of money if you want to read them.

        A review call might just end up being less work then reading a lot of slop papers.

  • handfuloflight 8 hours ago

    How about we embrace the era of the superhuman?

    • coldtea 6 hours ago

      It's not the era of the superman coming. It's the era of the sewers man.

    • lagudragu 5 hours ago

      What superhuman? This system will never have a 99.99% accuracy based on its current prediction models and data input, neither is it a targeted to make us superhumans in the first place.

      It still will need human supervision for corrections and if it doesn't it won't require humans to process further. Humans are not in the central picture of the future of AI.

      • brador 12 minutes ago

        > This system will never have a 99.99% accuracy

        Do humans?

        Superman is here. Just missing physical form. That’s coming. 2028.

        • Natfan 3 minutes ago

          year of the Linux desktop?