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Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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Re: Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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> Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent. I stopped reading after the first sentence.

Hey, a typical person should be intelligent because we human have used ourselves as a de-facto definition of intelligence anyway. That sentence probably means something like "no intellectually disabled person here". Even though we don't normally feel so because higher educations seem "typical" to us.

Re: Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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> Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent. I stopped reading after the first sentence.

Hey, a typical person should be intelligent because we human have used ourselves as a de-facto definition of intelligence anyway. That sentence probably means something like "no intellectually disabled person here". Even though we don't normally feel so because higher educations seem "typical" to us.

I think the article used a different colloquial meaning of “intelligent”, more akin to “intellectual” (the noun), as in “well educated”.

Either way, an odd statement shouldn’t normally instantly invalidate the whole article.

Re: Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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> Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent. I stopped reading after the first sentence.

I’m not sure why that’s controversial - I have met many Ivy League students and grads; they are all intelligent, at least in an academic way. The only other common characteristic is that they almost always had some form of privilege. Either rich parents, or adults around them who worked very hard to get them to that level.
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