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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)
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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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[โ€“] Strykker@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue is to laypeople the term AI presents the idea of actual intelligence at a human level. Which computer science doesn't require for something to qualify as AI

Leads to lay people attributing more ability to the llm than they actually posses.

[โ€“] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. That said, I am uncomfortable with the idea that policing language is the correct or only solution to the problem.