[incomingpain]

My local post-secondary dont teach AI at all. Not even like a teaser course or anything.

Technically speaking, they are leftists who publicly oppose AI. They created the new Chief of AI Officer who has no support at all from the univeristy, had to go to politicians for support.

Whereas the college straight up opposes AI.

But what value is any of their degrees anymore? Suspicious at best.

[louis_fyne]

> they are leftists who publicly oppose AI. They created the new Chief of AI Officer who has no support at all from the univeristy

The "leftist" administration created a position while at the same time speaking out against AI? Doesn't seem realistic.

> Whereas the college straight up opposes AI.

Opposes AI in what way? No courses on it? Does not allow students to utilize it? I have a hard time believing they do not offer a single course on any AI subject. Many colleges are offering it as a post-grad option, at least in Canada.

> But what value is any of their degrees anymore? Suspicious at best.

In general? I don't understand what you are getting at here.

[incomingpain]

>The "leftist" administration created a position while at the same time speaking out against AI? Doesn't seem realistic.

It is an interesting situation to be sure. Not my place to say what they say or do. I'm just commenting about the situation.

>Opposes AI in what way? No courses on it? Does not allow students to utilize it? I have a hard time believing they do not offer a single course on any AI subject.

Publicly opposed to the use of AI.

If a student is found using it, they are expelled. There's 1 public case where a student used Em-dashes and got accused of cheating. GPTzero says human written, but they got expelled. Probably just 1 extreme story, but i dont know.

As for courses. If you look up the 'courses' they do have a machine learning course where it has a single class. "Introduction to Python"

That's it. And that's a course, not even a degree or certification.

They have a 1 year 'data analytics' masters but it explicitly says it's not machine learning or AI. Here I am thinking university is rarely 2 years, always 3+. Yet this is just 1 year? Odd.

>Many colleges are offering it as a post-grad option, at least in Canada.

In fact, this was the more interesting case. I go to one of the networking events put on by the college, as a professional and not student. Nothing about AI technically, but the subject comes up often and almost always in negative light.

I looked into like being a teacher of AI at the college, but they have nothing at all.

>In general? I don't understand what you are getting at here.

Sorry. My bad. I have autism and dont communicate well.

[louis_fyne]

> It is an interesting situation to be sure. Not my place to say what they say or do. I'm just commenting about the situation.

Not your place to say what they say or do but you're doing exactly that? You're bringing politics into the comment and then throwing your hands up and saying "not my place to speak on this" when you are questioned about it.

> That's it. And that's a course, not even a degree or certification.

I see many universities and colleges in Ontario (where I am), for example, that offer post-grad programs on AI. I can't find a single school that has outright banned it. Do you have a source for these claims you are making? I might be uninformed if it is an American or European school but post-secondary institutions in this country seem to be generally supportive.

[pixl97]

So they don't have a machine learning class?

Teaching AI is a rather large field are you talking about LLMs/transformers? Are you talking about working with LLMs, which is something that seems to change every 6 months?

[incomingpain]

>So they don't have a machine learning class?

They do! It's a 1 year course about "Introduction to Python" and that's it.Wild.

>Teaching AI is a rather large field are you talking about LLMs/transformers? Are you talking about working with LLMs, which is something that seems to change every 6 months?

That's a valid point. But that means education is more important as opposed to dont teach it at all.