FrenziedFelidFanatic@yiffit.nettopolitics @lemmy.world•University of Pennsylvania will sanction Amy Wax, the law prof who invited a white nationalist to speak to her class
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8 days agoTenure is—and should be—powerful. UPenn is an R1 institute; if her research is good, it will be hard to do anything until it becomes a significant issue. Like now.
Deep learning doesn’t stop at llms. Honestly, language isn’t a great use case for them. They are—by nature—statistics machines, so if you have a fuck load of data to crunch, they can work very quickly to find patterns. The patterns might not always be correct, but if they are easy to check, then it might be faster to use them and modify the result compared to doing it all yourself.
I don’t know what this person does, though, and it will depend on the specifics of the situation for how they are used.