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AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

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Re: AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

#33

Post by vorticalbox »

cube00 wrote: post #24
jimmar wrote: post #13

In my professional career, my employers give me a lot more assignments than exams.

Meetings are still like exams, if you can't craft a line of thinking on the spot it doesn't come off well. You don't need a final answer but you can't just answer "I don't know" otherwise you risk being slimed (shout out to anyone who still remembers "You Can't Do That on Television")

“I don’t know but after this meeting I will find out and get back to you”

Is an acceptable answer.

Re: AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

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Post by grahammccain »

Guess what this is probably fine. AI helps people do their work on a daily basis and probably makes them memorize less things. That’s how the world is moving. You don’t need to be able to memorize something for an exam to show mastery of a topic. And we shouldn’t organize our society around memorizing things for exams.

Re: AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

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Post by rektomatic »

grahammccain wrote: post #35

Guess what this is probably fine. AI helps people do their work on a daily basis and probably makes them memorize less things. That’s how the world is moving. You don’t need to be able to memorize something for an exam to show mastery of a topic. And we shouldn’t organize our society around memorizing things for exams.

Good exams don't just test memorization

Re: AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

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Post by gampleman »

grahammccain wrote: post #35

Guess what this is probably fine. AI helps people do their work on a daily basis and probably makes them memorize less things. That’s how the world is moving. You don’t need to be able to memorize something for an exam to show mastery of a topic. And we shouldn’t organize our society around memorizing things for exams.

Memorizing stuff is good for understanding. Of course memorizing without understanding doesn't really help, which is what a lot of student last-minute "cramming" boils down to. But without concrete and memorized knowledge, any abstract reasoning skills become quickly impossible.

Re: AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

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Post by dan_ggggg »

grahammccain wrote: post #35

Guess what this is probably fine. AI helps people do their work on a daily basis and probably makes them memorize less things. That’s how the world is moving. You don’t need to be able to memorize something for an exam to show mastery of a topic. And we shouldn’t organize our society around memorizing things for exams.

Definitely not fine. People are graduating from Computer Science programs literally unable to write a line of code without AI assistance.

These people have fallen into OpenAI and Anthropic's trap and are illiterate without the assistance of coin-operated slop generators.

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