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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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[–] Neve8028@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

AI in its current form is equivalent to the advent of the typewriter.

It's really not. Everything that you write with a typewriter is going to be your own words and your own thoughts. I wouldn't even consider the calculator comparison to be valid. A calculator will spit out an objective truth. AI tools like chatgpt will formulate complex responses to how you prompt it. It adds context, information, and analysis in a way that a typewriter or calculator doesn't. The whole point of school is to learn critical thinking skills and telling chatgpt to write an essay for you based on the assignment criteria will not achieve that goal in any meaningful way.

That being said, there are valid ways to use AI to assist in the learning process but exams are meant to verify your personal understanding of the material.