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I like the critique of the problem - unclear how many model releases the proposed solution helps (or should help, looks at student loan balance) the economic structure of a university survive.
We let the university model degrade, and now this author is pontificating about how the university model isn't working.

Yes.

Because we let it degrade.

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>>Professors should teach about AI, include how to prompt efficiently and how to critically scrutinize the output

>100% agree, as with any important technology. But this is just a small curriculum change, just one more topic to cover in the lecture, and maybe a class.

Critically scrutinizing LLM output is just teaching critical thinking skills, something universities should already do.

> I think author's hope for oral exams is too optimistic, that is too expensive.

Ironically AI is perfect for quizzing you.

This is a mostly American thing though.

I’m Italian and in all my university experience i tool all my exams in person, simple pen and paper. Some professors would require an additional in person oral examination as well, depending on the course.

Passing an exam through at-home assignments alone was sci-fi for us.

I like the emphasis on the development of the individual as a mentally co-ordinated cognitive whole.

Carbon-based lifeforms gotta give the silicon-based a run for their money.