When AI Becomes Your New Grad School Substitute?
Hang onto your berets, intellectual world, for some shocker news – The Daily Beast reports that Boston University heads are mulling over replacing striking graduate students’ work with generative AI. Yup, you heard it right; someone pitched the idea of our beloved AI stepping into the shoes of the disgruntled grad scholars striking for something…probably beer money, who knows? This unconventional proposition popped up in a Wednesday hootenanny, aka, email sent to University faculty. Now, who are we to question the “great minds”?
Key Points On AI Replacing Protesting Grad School Disciples:
– This kooky idea was part of a broader suggestive cocktail on how to juggle, or perhaps ‘manage’ if you want to put a fancy word on it, course discussion sections, and labs. Pretty sure those labs don’t involve the kind you’d like to throw in a couple of beakers and see some explosions, mind you.
– The graduate students at Boston University seem to have taken a page out of the history textbooks, exercising their right to strike. But, negotiating with these future Nobel laureates isn’t quite cutting it, hence the proposition to swap them out with AI – seems legit, right?
– This move is as bold as a cup of over-priced, uber-strong Starbucks coffee. It’s sure to brew more tension potentially, introducing the spicy prospect of no longer outsourcing work to grad students.
Final Thoughts and Musings
So, Artificial Intelligence finally graduates from just doing hard math and predicting weather patterns to potentially filling in for sassy Boston University strikers. The prospect is fascinatingly dystopian, sure, but is it even a fair match? True, AI can crunch the numbers, but would they really master the eye-roll and give the perfect sarcastic responses our grad students are famous for? Oh, Boston University, how you’ve tantalised us with this wild showdown. Stay tuned, fellow AI geeks, as we watch this Sci-Fi tale unfold in academia.
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