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That's really the only tangible recommendation in the article.

The real problem for universities is this: much of what classical academia claims is important is not all that hard for a LLM. Writing "compare and contrast" student papers, research which consists of digging through existing texts and summarizing, and writing in a formal style are all things LLMs do. Probably better than most undergraduates.

This shakes the philosophical foundations of academia. What are universities for now? Job training? Sorting the winners from the losers? Something else?