Artificial Omnipresence

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Dear student: please do your own, honest work. Thanks!

“CAUTION: AI does not know how to write a proper lab report. Do not risk losing easy points by trusting something that has never attended labs.”

Entirely reasonable position from instructors: do your own work, and please don’t cheat.

Of course, we also get this message in the same week:

Keyboard with an AI shortcut key.
Appears to be a Microsoft Copilot key.

‘Twas update-the-computers season in the department, and the new Windows laptops have eliminated the right-side Control key in favor of one for Microsoft’s AI. Ditched a very useful key for one that’s utterly pointless.

For example: with only a single Control key on the left, it is no longer possible to log into this laptop with a single hand, even if you’ve got hands like Andre the Giant.

Sigh.