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Sensitive-Bear t1_iwv5mrx wrote

“Of course, the tech industry thrives on unwarranted hype. Last month S Scott Graham in a piece for Inside Higher Education described encouraging students to use the technology for their assignments with decidedly mixed results. The very best, he said, would have fulfilled the minimum requirements but little more. Weaker students struggled, since giving the system effective prompts (and then editing its output) required writing skills of a sufficiently high level to render the AI superfluous.”

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KayTannee t1_iwzgxue wrote

I'm pretty crap at starting from a blank page. But I can do a reasonable job of editing something written. It would probably not be that bad for me.

Generate some variations, and then use them as inspiration.

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beeen_there t1_iwvt496 wrote

>In 2012, computer theorist Ben Goertzel proposed what he called the “robot university student test”, arguing that an AI capable of obtaining a degree in a same ways as a human should be considered conscious.

Conscious!

Hysterical - an AI getting a degree on this basis is plagiarism by way of datasets, so it wouldn't even get the degree, never mind be conscious.

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Gari_305 OP t1_iwv17zv wrote

From the Article

>AI is becoming more sophisticated, and some say capable of writing academic essays. But at what point does the intrusion of AI constitute cheating?
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>“Waiting in front of the lecture hall for my next class to start, and beside me two students are discussing which AI program works best for writing their essays. Is this what I’m marking? AI essays?”
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>The tweet by historian Carla Ionescu late last month captures growing unease about what artificial intelligence portends for traditional university assessment. “No. No way,” she tweeted. “Tell me we’re not there yet.”

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FuturologyBot t1_iwv5f3m wrote

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From the Article

>AI is becoming more sophisticated, and some say capable of writing academic essays. But at what point does the intrusion of AI constitute cheating?
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>“Waiting in front of the lecture hall for my next class to start, and beside me two students are discussing which AI program works best for writing their essays. Is this what I’m marking? AI essays?”
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>The tweet by historian Carla Ionescu late last month captures growing unease about what artificial intelligence portends for traditional university assessment. “No. No way,” she tweeted. “Tell me we’re not there yet.”


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TakenIsUsernameThis t1_iwvlwhx wrote

Student will have to take written exams, and their writing styles in exams will be used as a baseline for analysing their other coursework.

. . . Then they will learn how to train an AI to mimic their writing styles and we will have to instigate vivas for every student just to check they know what they are studying.

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Scope_Dog t1_iwwsstf wrote

Best way to solve that, have students supplement their papers with a verbal presentation complete with visual aids.

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Electrical_Age_7483 t1_iwy1txm wrote

University might have to stop relying on essays so much to test

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Cheapskate-DM t1_iwyt4y2 wrote

That's the rub - essays are used for a reason.

- can be submitted anonymously to remove gender/race bias

- easily transmittable for remote applicants or those too poor to afford in-person testing

- low to no cost for applicant to create other than time

- easy to grade/analyze quickly for institutions recieving hundreds or thousands of applicants at a time

Pull that rug out from under would-be students and you're causing a lot of damage.

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