Students are probably tired of buying 10+ $100+ books a semester which many will use loans to pay for. Why aren’t the universities themselves loaning books using their tuition or endowments?
The only reason people buy those books is that they're required for problem sets (sometimes needing a single-use key for online homework that comes with the book and costs as much as the book to buy standalone). Universities drive this racket. It's not like we need 15 editions of a book (e.g. University Physics with Modern Physics) to keep up with the fast-moving fields of freshman physics and calculus.
When I was in school, people passed around a CD that had all of the books for our major on it. These days there's libgen. There are also plenty of free, legal, high quality sources of material for learning. But you can't really get out of the $100 license to do your homework.
Let's all just admit it instead of dodging multiple AGI definitions like "reaching human-level reasoning and cognition", "taking over economically significant tasks which benefits humanity", "$100B profits" or "raising more money until AGI", etc.
This is the actual true definition of "AGI" (and ASI and so on) which is actually happening.
The ultimate replacement of humans with AI systems (and to an increase of 10% global unemployment by 2035)
Students are probably tired of buying 10+ $100+ books a semester which many will use loans to pay for. Why aren’t the universities themselves loaning books using their tuition or endowments?
The only reason people buy those books is that they're required for problem sets (sometimes needing a single-use key for online homework that comes with the book and costs as much as the book to buy standalone). Universities drive this racket. It's not like we need 15 editions of a book (e.g. University Physics with Modern Physics) to keep up with the fast-moving fields of freshman physics and calculus.
When I was in school, people passed around a CD that had all of the books for our major on it. These days there's libgen. There are also plenty of free, legal, high quality sources of material for learning. But you can't really get out of the $100 license to do your homework.
Seems they have a big opportunity to harness all those books for a gamechanging teaching tool.
Let's all just admit it instead of dodging multiple AGI definitions like "reaching human-level reasoning and cognition", "taking over economically significant tasks which benefits humanity", "$100B profits" or "raising more money until AGI", etc.
This is the actual true definition of "AGI" (and ASI and so on) which is actually happening.
The ultimate replacement of humans with AI systems (and to an increase of 10% global unemployment by 2035)