In Minnesota, AI vs. Academia

You will continue to see cases like this as AI tools scale, so let's take a quick look at this one.

As ChatGPT scales in society (as well as other AI platforms), we are beginning to have a little bit of a reckoning with what it all means. One story that went kinda semi-viral a few months ago was a teenager in Orlando who committed suicide, apparently because a bot based on Daernys from Game of Thrones told him to do so. Eek. (Although, again, there needs to be some discussion of parenting and community within that discussion.) Then, a few days ago, I believe we learned that the Las Vegas CyberTruck bomber guy, Matthew L., had used ChatGPT to plan routes and charging stations and even figure out (purportedly) some of what he needed. Alright.

Clearly this thing is here to stay, and if you believe Sam Altman and company, it might even get more advanced in the next year or three. Now we have a new case out of Minnesota, that of Haishan (sp?) Yang: