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Eric Stinton: Students Need A Better Reason Not To Cheat Using AI
- Two studies highlight that students are increasingly relying on AI, like ChatGPT, which may weaken their motivation and understanding of subjects, as expressed by Elizabeth Wardle, director at Miami University.
- A study from the University of Illinois found that ChatGPT earned a passing grade in an aerospace engineering course but lacked deep comprehension of high-level concepts.
- Researchers from China and Australia observed that students using ChatGPT improved their essays without increasing learning motivation or topic understanding.
- The overarching challenge is to redesign assignments to reduce reliance on AI while fostering genuine expertise and understanding among students, as researchers advised.
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Chat Bot Passes College Engineering Class With Minimal Effort
The chat bot earned a B, slightly below the class average. It excelled in practice problems and computing exercises but was unable to justify its work or simplify systems. Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, instructors have worried about how students might circumvent learning by utilizing the chat bot to complete homework and other assignments. Over the years, the large language model has enabled AI to expand its database and its ability to a…
University students offload critical thinking, other hard work to AI
Tech evangelists may be dazzled by the promise of AI, but two well-designed new studies — one in China and one by a leading AI company — signal trouble ahead. The two studies were conducted by a team of international researchers who studied how Chinese students were using ChatGPT to help with English writing, and by researchers at Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude. They both come to a similar conclusion: Many students are letti…
Everyone's Using AI To Cheat at School. That's a Good Thing.
There’s an epidemic of cheating in American education right now. The cheaters are the students of course, but the names of the cheating aids might be familiar to you: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Llama.These characters are capable of doing extraordinary things: writing your persuasive essay in under a minute; knowing virtually all of history; and performing first-rate synthetic analyses of complicated questions. They are not yet geared up …
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