A.I. and the Future of Cheating
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A.I. and the Future of Cheating
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#2> If a university has no way of determining whether an assignment was written by a human or an algorithm, existing grading systems lose any semblance of meritocracy or fairness.
Just because it was hard to tell if it was written by an AI doesn't mean the paper succeeds at whatever the assignment was. All GPT-2 does is predict the next word. I don't see how this can be used to write a research paper.
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#3> What happens when universities can’t tell whether an essay is written by a human or an algorithm?
Then in that scenario, that means that essays are worthless at evaluating students, and if AI essays really are as good as human essays, then teaching the writing of essays at the college level is a waste of time.
However, looking at the generated essay, it seems to me that the real problem is that universities have reduced essay grading to an algorithm which values form over the content of the essay. The fact that AI can generate content with the required form should come as no surprise to anyone. Perhaps we should be teaching critical thinking and reading skills to evaluate the actual content of any essays.
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#4> What happens when universities can’t tell whether an essay is written by a human or an algorithm? Then in that scenario, that means that essays are worthless at evaluating students, and if AI essays really are as good as human essays, then teaching the writing of essays at the college level is a waste of time. However, looking at the generated essay, it seems to me that the real problem is that universities have re…
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#5> If a university has no way of determining whether an assignment was written by a human or an algorithm, existing grading systems lose any semblance of meritocracy or fairness. Just because it was hard to tell if it was written by an AI doesn't mean the paper succeeds at whatever the assignment was. All GPT-2 does is predict the next word. I don't see how this can be used to write a research paper.
not that i believe (or not) that this will eventually be feasible, but the dream is that if you feed an introductory paragraph (which includes a thesis) to the algo, it will be able to generate the next 4 paragraphs, which completes a 5 paragraph essay.
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#6Note that this was posted September 13th; before the full-size GPT-2 was released yesterday after concerns about GPT-2's danger were unproven.
The practical use case for GPT-2 in writing is writing assistance/autocomplete, such as with Write With Transformer (https://transformer.huggingface.co). Text that partially AI-written would pass a Turing test so-to-speak.
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#7The future of cheating is large corporations and billionaires using automation to accumulate more society points without giving back to the hard working people who make it all possible in the first place.
* Note: this is also the present of cheating.
* * Note: I hope this cynical statement of mine doesn't come true.
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#8The future of cheating is large corporations and billionaires using automation to accumulate more society points without giving back to the hard working people who make it all possible in the first place. * Note: this is also the present of cheating. * * Note: I hope this cynical statement of mine doesn't come true.
The future of cheating is no one having to work so hard, because machines are doing all the boring work.
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#9> What happens when universities can’t tell whether an essay is written by a human or an algorithm? Then in that scenario, that means that essays are worthless at evaluating students, and if AI essays really are as good as human essays, then teaching the writing of essays at the college level is a waste of time. However, looking at the generated essay, it seems to me that the real problem is that universities have re…
Students could just be required to write the essays in class rather than as take-home assignments.
Also, if there's a great discrepancy in style, skill, or content of in-class essays vs take-home essays, then that could be considered evidence of cheating.
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#10> If a university has no way of determining whether an assignment was written by a human or an algorithm, existing grading systems lose any semblance of meritocracy or fairness. Just because it was hard to tell if it was written by an AI doesn't mean the paper succeeds at whatever the assignment was. All GPT-2 does is predict the next word. I don't see how this can be used to write a research paper.
not that i believe (or not) that this will eventually be feasible, but the dream is that if you feed an introductory paragraph (which includes a thesis) to the algo, it will be able to generate the next 4 paragraphs, which completes a 5 paragraph essay.
What I would be more interested in is feeding it a topic, it goes out and summarizes sources, then arranges those summaries to make a point. I'd actually really like this driving around. I could just have ai give me the tldr on topics I'm interested in.