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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

When will people need to do basic algebra in their head? The difficulty between 13+24 and 169+ 742 rises dramatically. Yeah it makes your life convenient if you can add simple numbers, but is it necessary when everyone has a calculator?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Like someone said. It's not just about knowing what something is, but having the ability to recognize what something isn't.

    The ability to look at a result and be skeptical if it doesn't look reasonable.

    169+742. Just by looking I can tell it has to be pretty close to 900 because 160+740 is 900. That gives me a good estimate to go by. So when I arrive at 911. I can look at it and say. Yeah. That's probably correct, it looks reasonable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That sounds like ot could be a focused lesson. Why try to skirt around what the desired goal is?

    That also could be placed into detecting if something is wrong with AI too. Teach people things to just help spot these errors.

    In my experience, it's so much more effective to learn how to find the answers and spot the issues than to memorize how to do everything. There's too much now to know it all yourself.

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