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Dr. Aryeh Kontorovich, Prof. of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, Israel
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Dr. Kontorovich is a professor of computer science at Ben Gurion University in Israel, where his research focuses on machine learning, Markov chains, probability, and statistics. Recently, he has been working with ChatGPT and has had some success in demonstrating its limitations when it comes to logic, reasoning, and humor. We discuss the future implications of AI for teaching and learning in higher education. Dr. Kontorovich comes from a family of Russian Jewish academics, and we also discuss why so many scholars with family ties to the old Soviet Union have been so vocal in their criticism of wokeness and the DEI agenda in universities.
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Dr. Aryeh Kontorovich, Prof. of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, Israel
"Whither the Looniversity?" - A Podcast on the Miserable State of the American University
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Dr. Kontorovich is a professor of computer science at Ben Gurion University in Israel, where his research focuses on machine learning, Markov chains, probability, and statistics. Recently, he has been working with ChatGPT and has had some success in demonstrating its limitations when it comes to logic, reasoning, and humor. We discuss the future implications of AI for teaching and learning in higher education. Dr. Kontorovich comes from a family of Russian Jewish academics, and we also discuss why so many scholars with family ties to the old Soviet Union have been so vocal in their criticism of wokeness and the DEI agenda in universities.
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