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Dr. JIm Dunnigan's avatar

I teach in a doctoral program. Your description of AI producing work without "necessarily representing underlying effort" matches perfectly to the dissertation writing process. Our entire assessment uses words as a proxy as an indicator of effort, intelligence, and care. Yes, committees do work with students extensively over a long period of time so we do know and see their thinking process- but it is not necessarily captured in a formal way. I believe this is an existential threat to doctoral programs if we do not change our assessments or the dissertation itself. I actually think it opens up new opportunities to explore research in new ways we have never dreamed of.

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Zsuzsanna's avatar

AI is my best colleague, my help and friend. It is creepy how I cannot imagine my life without it any more. I love this blog, I learned so much!

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