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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    1 year ago

    My broader point (in your metaphor) is that calligraphy tests are irrelevant at this point. The world changed. Theres not going back.

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      1 year ago

      A calligraphy test is not irrelevant if you are studying to LEARN calligraphy. If you are arguing that calligraphy as a subject doesnt need to exist then fine then don’t study it. But you don’t learn it by asking AI to do it for you.

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      1 year ago

      Typewriters are also irrelevant today. It was an analogy. I agree that AI can be used in some evaluations, depending what you’re evaluating.

      I allow and encourage Googling for information when I interview software engineering candidates. I don’t consider it “cheating”, on the contrary. Being able to unblock themselves is one of the skills they should have. They will be using external help when doing their job, so why should the test be any different.

      But that also reminds me now that I actually once had a candidate using generative AI in the coding interview. It did feel like cheating when it was a the level of asking for the full solution, not just help getting unblocked. It didn’t help at all though because the candidate didn’t even have enough skill to tell the good suggestions from the bad ones or what they needed to iterate on.

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        🤔 I dispute that typewriters are irrelevant. Famous writers still use them today, and they are a perfect means for helping some disabled people type out essays on the spot to test their comprehension of a subject. It gets around handwriting issues without allowing electronics that could be used for cheating into an exam space.