alt Hacker NewsA funny piece, but what if all of the following are true:
- AI *is* how real research is done
- Incentives are such that this is how researchers must work
- Academia institution does not have a structure to accept this reality
Maybe we should take away the grants from the universities and put them into autoresearch loops + human reviewers?
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solresol • yesterday at 5:39 AM
In some fields, all of those statements are true already.
In a large number of few fields, all of those statements will be true in the near future (10 years maximum).
There's no reason that the Humboldtian model should be the right structure for the next century's universities, just as it wasn't the right structure for the 18th century's universities.
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anthk • yesterday at 9:19 AM
This is how you get Idiocracy instead of geniouses.
LIMEVINCE • yesterday at 7:22 AM
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The chalkboard test is useful despite textbooks existing. The point is if you can’t problem solve “in memory,” there is a latency and limit to creativity fundamentally enforced by your ability to make connections. And in the end, if all you need is ChatGPT, a grad student is cheaper.