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Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.
A recent episode of AppleTV’s The Studio ended with a crowd at ComicCon — and Ice Cube — chanting “fuck AI.” Last week there was a WorldCon kerfuffle(sigh) over using ChatGPT in part of the panel selection process. An infinitely patient digital tutor that can tackle any question (a la the Primer in Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age, and probably a hundred other SF references) sounds like just what a strained education system needs — if it didn’t hallucinate constantly, that is. This past semester I tried the same thing, but those I emailed mostly held firm and denied cheating, knowing, I think, how much of a hassle it would be for me to actually escalate the situation to the level of an academic integrity violation.
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