Large Language Model AI systems have the potential to vastly enlarge our human ability to process information and extract meaning from vast amounts of data. They also have the ability to vastly expand upon on of humanity’s oldest habits, and that is the ability to CHEAT.
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Several times in the comments on this video I see people referring to “when I went to college” … At the age y’all were in college I went to United States Marine Corps Boot Camp. By the time y’all graduated from College I’d spent several years in the Marines. If AI figures out a way to cheat on that I’d be very interested in seeing it … Any higher education I was able to get came during or after my military service. Personally I think this has made an enormous difference in the way I see things. I know it… Read more »
I remember Bill’s “Five Alarm Fire”….Firewall or Afterburner. A.i. cheating and the resulting lack of curiosity is today’s “Ten Alarm Fire”
I went to college in the dark ages as well. All written tests were in a Blue Book and you had to sign the back underneath a statement that said, among other things, I didn’t cheat. Hardest exam I ever took was the Oral Exam for my Master’s. 3 PhD from the department asking me questions on anything I should have learned in 5 years in their department. Sweated through my shirt. One of the guys asked me to derive the equations necessary to launch a rocket from the earth and end up in orbit around the moon. That was… Read more »
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth….
Urr, not really😉
When I was I college everything was hand written or typed on a typewriter.with very rare verbal. I preferred typewriter as my handwriting was, and is, horrible. Loved it when there was interaction or we did hands on stuff. What little AI I have done didn’t do what I wanted but I won’t give up.
I can get quite stubborn😁
Steve’s answer reminded me of when Norm in the show “Cheers” got a gob at a beer brewery. He was able to figure out why the beer did not taste right even though the computers said nothing was wrong. Norm simply answered, “because computers can’t love.”
In the coding world, I’ve found AI to be more useful as a style and formatting tool. It can clean up unreadable code very quickly, but you have to make sure to read every line and fix whatever it broke in the process. Any time I’ve asked it to write something from scratch for me, at best it’s boilerplate code that I have to fix, and at worst it’s a total waste of time because it sends me down a hallucinogenic rabbit trail. The other thing I’ve tried to use it for is diagnosing car problems, but Grok has an… Read more »
Speaking as a teacher, what Bill says is absolutely right — AI has the capability to be a great teaching tool. [disclaimer: put down your stones, the public NC middle school I teach at has very pro-Christian MAGA conservative teachers and admin. I can count the number of wacko lefties on one hand. In that respect, I’m very lucky to be teaching where I am.] AI’s result is only as good as the prompts you give it. And you have to know what you’re looking for to be able to formulate a precise prompt. Unfortunately, the caliber of middle schoolers… Read more »
Ronette is now a HS teacher, wasn’t the plan, she was recruited by her old principal. One Sunday after church she stopped us in the parking lot. Oh, same church that the superintendent attends and is a deacon, and the one of the school board members. She has taken to giving basic prompts to AI when she gives an assignment just so that she can easily spot the students who used AI. Those students have to redo the assignment and there highest possible grade is now a 75. Not a harsh enough penalty in my mind, but I am not… Read more »
After Bill’s comment about having access to all the answers, but not knowing the right questions, I couldn’t help but think of the answer to life, the universe and everything. As we all know, the obvious answer is 42. But what, exactly is the question?
DC politicians are almost never punished and they are some of the worst examples of “representatives” of the average American. There should be NO consecutive terms because I don’t want them looking for a new job, reelection, while they are suppose to be working and number 2 the people will be able to see who the politicians associate with when not in DC. and this is why EVERY cop IS a criminal; “Under our system of government upon the individuality and intelligence of the citizen, the state” does not claim to control him/her, except as his/her conduct to others, leaving… Read more »
This has pretty much nothing to do with the topic of AI and cheating. It’s just your usual, run-of-the-mill, every day, garden variety Sovereign Citizen boiler plate bullshit. About the only compliment I can think of to give you, lil’ Donny, is that if nothing else you’re consistently, single-mindedly, absurdly hostile to the truth. But that’s not really much of a compliment, is it? Like you do with the Bible, you take a statement or verse out of context, a single sentence from one or a few obscure bits of case law, and think that proves your agenda. It does… Read more »
My wife teaches online for a university in a health care discipline. She has become really good at detecting students using AI. One of those issues is that AI hallucinates quite a bit especially with references.