Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class

kept by eddie may 19

A Stanford senior describes how ChatGPT transformed campus culture, enabling widespread cheating and shifting focus from education to wealth-building.

A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.
California's public universities spent $16.9 million on AI tools during a financial crisis, sparking faculty revolt and internal conflict.
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Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It's an Exoskeleton.
Treating AI as an exoskeleton that amplifies human capability, rather than as an autonomous coworker, leads to better productivity and decision-making in product development.
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Exclusive | AI Hackers Are Coming Dangerously Close to Beating Humans - WSJ
A Stanford experiment shows its AI hacking bot Artemis can find and exploit vulnerabilities in a real network, sometimes outperforming professional human penetration testers.
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Search | The Moat of the Search Index - by FD - Robonomics
The author argues that the traditional search index moat is largely gone because AI assistants like ChatGPT use multi-hop reasoning across multiple sources, hiding individual search failures.
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Monetizing AI surfaces: Ads in the age of AI
OpenAI is testing intent-based ads and affiliate commerce in ChatGPT, with potential to become a $10B+ business if it builds effective measurement and avoids compromising answer quality.
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