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16% of College Students Bailing From Majors Because of AI
A new survey from Gallup finds that 16% of students have decided to switch majors in deference to the growing influence of AI.
Males are more apt to make the switch (21%) while females are close behind (12%).
Observes writer Stephanie Marken: “Beyond shaping decisions about fields of study, artificial intelligence is also influencing some students’ decision to enroll in higher education in the first place.”
Essentially, those students are looking for AI and similar training they can use to land their first job, according to Marken.
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*26% of Gen Z Turning to AI for Sex and Romance: For today’s youth, Mister and/or Miss Perfect can often be found in an AI chatbot.
These days, 26% of Gen Z say that AI makes a great surrogate for a sexual or romantic relationship, according to a new survey.
And 70% say developing romantic feelings for a chatbot “counts as cheating,” according to writer Eric Hal Schwartz.
Yikes!
*MS Copilot Researcher Now Double-Checks All Findings: In a nod to the reality that AI sometimes gets things wrong, MS Copilot Researcher is out with a new feature that double-checks every fact and insight it delivers.
Observes writer Ken Yeung: “We saw the first implementation of this plan last week with new upgrades to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
“Its ‘Researcher’ agent can now use OpenAI’s GPT to draft a response, then have Anthropic’s Claude review it for accuracy, completeness and citation quality before finalizing it.”
*Google AI Overviews Offer 91% Accuracy: Those seemingly authoritative summaries Google Search is serving up to you – dubbed ‘Google AI Overviews’ – are right most of the time.
But 9% of the time, they’re completely off-the-mark.
Observes Search Engine Land: “Google handles more than 5 trillion searches per year. So that means tens of millions of answers every hour may be wrong.”
*The CIA Embraces AI Writing: When the CIA starts relying on your technology, you can pretty much assume you’ve got a sure thing.
Writer Jose Antonio Lanz reports that the CIA recently did just that by trusting AI to generate an intelligence report – no human analyst needed.
Observes Lanz: “The goal is speed—getting intelligence products out faster than a human-only pipeline allows.”
*Condense Your Favorite Podcasts Into a Single, Text Newsletter: Startup Quicklets.ai has launched a new service that ‘listens’ to your favorite podcasts for you — then condenses the highlights into a single, summary newsletter.
The service is designed to automatically extract key insights, quotes, guest bios and trending signals from 1,000+ podcasts across finance, crypto, AI and technology.
Subscriptions start at $5/month.
*Google Beefs-Up Gemini’s Research Chops: ChatGPT competitor Gemini has made the chatbot more researcher-friendly with ‘Notebooks.’
Observes Rebecca Zapfel, a senior product manager at Google: “Think of notebooks as personal knowledge bases shared across Google products, starting in Gemini.
“They give you a dedicated space to organize your chats and files — and because they sync with NotebookLM — you can unlock even more efficient workflows directly from Gemini.”
*ChatGPT is Changing the Way Students Write: College application essay editor Liza Libes says the advent of ChatGPT and similar has birthed a generation of student writers who can say absolutely nothing in a grammatically perfect way.
Observes Libes: What’s changed “is the prevalence of students who possess a high degree of technical writing fluency — yet a low level of intellectual competence — resulting in a greater number of students who can produce perfectly structured sentences that say absolutely nothing.”
The upshot: “The same number of students with a natural aptitude for writing will still learn how to write. But they will no longer learn how to write well,” Libes says.
*ChatGPT-Competitor Anthropic Holds Back Release of its Newest AI Model: Claude Mythos Preview has been released to just a handful of key players in software after maker Anthropic discovered that the AI engine can be used to uncover security vulnerabilities in scores of software products.
Observes Anthropic’s blog: “Mythos Preview has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities — including some in every major operating system and Web browser.”
The limited release – known as Project Glasswing – was designed to give key software makers a chance to eliminate those vulnerabilities before Mythos is released to the general public.
*AI Big Picture: The Age of Truly Dangerous AI Has Arrived: New York Times opinion writer Thomas L. Friedman warns that the age of AI that can easily upend the world order is already here.
He points to the decision by Anthropic – a key competitor to ChatGPT – to limit release of its latest AI model to just a handful of key software players – as proof.
The reasoning behind Anthropic’s decision: The new AI model – dubbed Claude Mythos Preview — can be used to find security holes across a wide spectrum of popular software.
Observes Friedman: “Anthropic said it found critical exposures in every major operating system and Web browser — many of which run power grids, waterworks, airline reservation systems, retailing networks, military systems and hospitals all over the world.
“I’m really not being hyperbolic when I say that kids could deploy this by accident. Mom and Dad, get ready for:
“’Honey, what did you do after school today?’
“’Well, Mom, my friends and I took down the power grid. What’s for dinner?’”
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.
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