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  • Then the student could just ask the AI to simulate a thesis defense and learn answers to the most likely questions.

    The funny thing is, they would actually learn the material this way, through a kind of osmosis. I remember writing cheat sheets in college and finding I didn’t need it by the end.

    So there are potential use cases, but not if the university doesn’t acknowledge it and continues asking for work that can be simply automated.




  • People who track performance (like METR, a nonprofit) indicate that progress is, if anything, speeding up. Most people’s use case is so simple they can’t detect the difference. However for cases like complex problem solving, agentic tasks, etc you can in fact see significant progress happening. This should be concerning if you think the world isn’t ready for labor displaced by LLMs.