Every ounce of AI should be open source and free to the public. This is absolutely technological terrorism on the scale of encoding things in Latin to keep it from the masses.
A good university will be full of smart people, student and teachers alike. You essentially learn by contact. There are also rich and influential people, who can provide you with great job opportunities.
It all goes hand in hand: the brand, teachers quality, student quality, the infrastructures,...
Worse teacher may affect the brand negatively, the smartest students may want to go elsewhere, the rich, who want to be with the smart will leave too, which will affect funding, meaning less infrastructure and be less attractive to the best teachers and researchers. It is all connected.
Or is 'the computer told me so it's correct' good enough these days?
The same way you determine if a professor is knowledgeable -- they are employed by a school with certain level of reputation that you are comfortable to attend.
ChatGPT4 is better than any professor I ever had and it is not even close. Not to mention, the professors are not the ones who are going to get much better and smarter as time marches on from this point.
I am not even sure the credentialism from the Ivy league is going to make sense in an AI world.
Jokes aside I'm sure our administration would salivate at deploying this for CS61A.
AI is the digital wheel and the powers that be are intentionally altering it's ability to free us, to contain us for themselves. Labor is a powerful tool for vote motivation and instilling dependency. It is hard to watch them do to AI what they did to Bitcoin because they are afraid of what humanity will become without them.
Oddly enough, AI is great solution to this problem, but it is currently being gutted in favor of established institutions of power. Highlighting the actual problem - control and elitism.
In the current case "uterus" and "cervix" are now considered to be the English words for those body parts. Is using a loanword really "jumping ship" when much of English's influence history comes from Old French anyway? I think this would be better dealt with in the hands of a linguist.
Elitism and access is an issue, but to me it strikes that the access issue is more about access to education, than access to the language itself.
One could draw a comparison and suggest that institutions that fail to adapt to developments in AI might be making the same mistake; only time will tell.
Latin looks back on two thousand years of history. You probably mean the middle ages/renaissance, when Latin was indeed used by travellers to get around. At least some of the local elites in the bigger villages spoke it.
But even during the classical period of the roman empire, Latin might not have actually been spoken by people on the streets of Rome. Instead, people theorize that a simpler version was spoken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin
There is no modeling going on with this. At most they are providing a system prompt to the chatGPT api to stay on the topic of CS. It is trivial.
It seems incredibly obvious the entire education system will not be the same in 20 years.
I applaud them for adopting this so fast because this is the doom of the entire concept of the ridiculously overpriced US higher education system.
Per chatGPT, non recte de hoc cogitas