AI broke the college degree: Why higher education matters more than ever

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While it was once a faraway and futuristic idea, AI has now found its way into many aspects of everyday life, including higher education. This is what Patrick Dempsey, founder and co-CEO of Pend AI, spoke about in his keynote lecture on Feb. 18.

He began the talk with a trivia quiz about actor Patrick Dempsey. Once a winner was declared, he revealed the point of the exercise. He’d created the questions, Gemini AI created the multiple choice answers and Bubble AI had put together the quiz, demonstrating what AI is capable of and the technology that today’s students are surrounded by.

“[Students] are coming to our classroom, AI agents doing the coursework for them,” Dempsey said. “[Rather than] gathering the information and putting it into NotebookLM and making something that makes sense for them.”

Read more at The Linfield Review.

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