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Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

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427 points JumpCrisscross | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 17:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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lwhi ◴[21 Oct 24 08:16 UTC] No.41901852[source]▶
It is no longer effective to solely use a written essay to measure how deeply a student comprehends a subject.

AI is here to stay; new methods should be used to assess student performance.

I remember being told at school, that we weren't allowed to use calculators in exams. The line provided by teachers was that we could never rely on having a calculator when we need it most—obviously there's irony associated with having 'calculators' in our pockets 24/7 now.

We need to accept that the world has changed; I only hope that we get to decide how society responds to that change together .. rather than have it forced upon us.

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1. dogleash ◴[21 Oct 24 14:26 UTC] No.41904546[source]▶
> we could never rely on having a calculator when we need it most—obviously there's irony associated with having 'calculators' in our pockets 24/7 now

That was just a simple quip to shut down student bellyaching. Even before we had pocket calculators, it was never a strong answer. It just had to hold over long enough so when you realized it was bad answer you weren't that teacher's problem anymore.

The actual answer was that they're complaining about a minor inconvenience designed for reinforcement, and if they really did need a calculator for the arithmetic on a test designed deliberately designed to be taken without a calculator, then they don't belong in that class.