Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads

This is going to be like when all the schools were pushing big data because that was going to be the next big thing.

After more than a trillion dollars spent, LLMs can replace: (a) a new secretary with one week of experience (b) a junior programmer who just learned that they can install programs on a desktop computer, and (c) James Patterson.

That's the bright future that Purdue is preparing its students for.

Yes, AIs will be a huge thing...eventually...but LLMs are not AI, and they never will be.

This has nothing to do with whether the technology is valuable or not, it’s about cramming superficial treatment of trendy topics into academic degree rewuirements, which whatever one thinks of AI should be frowned upon.

It's definitely something that won't age well. Kids are going to grow up with many AI friends by the time they get to college.

I hope Anthropic is saving all my interactions with Claude so they can replace me when I'm gone.

Then future generations who like old school systems hacking will be able to pair program with Justine AI.

This is a much lighter take than mine which is that our behaviors being input into this system will eventually be used to subjugate and control future generations. I like it

If that's the case it sounds like universities will need to hire an army of psychologists to undo the damage that will have been done to those kids. Treating LLMs as a friend is profoundly unhealthy and will not end well.

What if Anthropic offered a platform for such sharing while you were still around, with a percentage of the collected API fees going to you?

“License your chat history” - most of us wouldn’t have any takers, but someone like you might.

(And I say this as someone who is really not a fan of how LLMs are being presented to the world at large)

It'd probably be such a small amount of money that it'd cost me more to cash the cheque. Lawyers are the only people who get rich over that kind of thing. Don't share any information with the robot that you don't feel comfortable with them using to make their service better. If you want to be fully in control of your interactions with AI then use llamafile which is 100% local. That's the healthy thing to do. Everything else is just rent-seeking and the fact that so many people are doing it is threatening much more important goals than money like transcendence.