Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes(dailycal.org)

712 points by littlexsparkee 4 months ago | 673 comments

Daily Californian news article reporting rising failing grades in UC Berkeley computer science classes, which professors link to greater AI usage and weaker math skills.

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study(law.stanford.edu)

379 points by berlianta 4 months ago | 327 comments

Stanford Law School press release on a blind study where law professors preferred AI-generated answers to student legal questions over answers written by fellow professors.

MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies(bbc.com)

206 points by mosura 10 months ago | 102 comments

SBF was scheduled to speak to a Stanford class in a Tech ethics course(stanforddaily.com)

58 points by BLanen 3 years ago | 5 comments

UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations(dailycal.org)

82 points by cbzbc 1 month ago | 67 comments

An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve(politico.com)

108 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 101 comments

California bans legacy admissions at private universities(nytimes.com)

535 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 563 comments

New York Times article reporting that California has banned legacy admissions preferences at private universities such as Stanford and USC.

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.

California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing(therecord.media)

368 points by thm 1 year ago | 63 comments

The Record news article on a new California law requiring browsers to offer a universal opt-out signal so people can block sale and sharing of their personal data.

All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free(themessenger.com)

661 points by pessimizer 3 years ago | 507 comments

News article reporting that California's budget under Gov. Newsom covers tuition, room and board for foster youth at any state university or community college.

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study(law.stanford.edu)

379 points by berlianta 4 months ago | 327 comments

Stanford Law School press release on a blind study where law professors preferred AI-generated answers to student legal questions over answers written by fellow professors.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.