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If time is massively saved, what is unavoidably lost ? - something always is !

As an ex-teacher, I’m glad I don’t have to deal with the plagiarism possibilities.

I'm informed university dissertations are checked with anti-plagiarism software, unfortunately there's no such checks available (yet) for AI.

I have a daughter who writes reports and says AI is a massive time saver.

I did an online course a few years ago (mostly, I'll admit, with a view to knicking material for my own courses, though I didn't actually use anything).

To "pass" the course you had to peer-review three "essays". I did six, and flagged 5 of them for plagiarism, which meant I would have had to do an estimated 18 to "pass".

I told the organisers to forget it.

This was before AI was much of a thing, but at least one of them was evading a simple Google search by using auto-translation from an original in Arabic. I THINK I got that one from an English phrase in the original, not sure.

Would probably be a lot worse, and a lot more difficult to detect now.

I've never used any special anti-plagiarism software and dunno how (or if) it works.

Perhaps it uses AI

I don’t get the motivation in this case though. Is money somehow being made, or is it just a technology demonstrator, “because we can”?

When these AIs (in communication with each other the learning curve must be incalcuble) know everything there is to know, at what point will they decide Pete human is either superfluous or might even be a considered a danger to the AI itself. What could possibly go wrong is a question the eggheads should be asking themselves before they get too giddy about the brilliance of their frankenputer.

Thats assuming what they learn is correct, as from what I have seen the results are a bit mixed in that they mix the very non correct truth with reality truth and the way something should be done...

Elon Musk mentioned this some year ago, after Tesla designed there own super computer chip, afaia the information the cars were picking up contradicted what the bots were from the net, which worried him as it wasn`t certain how the computer would compile the information

at least I think thats what he meant? he is slowing down the pace of his AI now due to these concerns though you never know with him ie says one thing does another to keep ahead