Is AI lying, playing into our habits or culture?

LOL

 

... remember long division? Slide rules? Two column proofs? LaGrange optimization? First year math analysis? Your junior project? Your senior project? The GRE? Assembling your thesis committee? Formulating your null hypothesis? Remember prepping for the big day, your thesis defense, entire student body gathered in forum to pepper you asunder in gotcha questioning, bent on your abject humiliation?

Future shock, fast forward, 21st century vernacular? Poof-gone. Students don't do any of that, anymore. They just push the AI button. Does it for them, automatically:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/everyone-is-cheating-their-way-through-college/ar-AA1EjCRk

Wholly devoid a fundamental sense of right and wrong, a generation of intellectual frauds are upon you, their brains in neutral coasting along through life on AI's intellectual dime, who never had to stoop to anything scholastically rigorous, are soon to be installing your pacemaker, performing your angioplasty, digging around in your gallbladder.

Were it absolute scoring, were it not for the class curve, none of these students would ever have made it through first semester freshman math analysis -


Samuel, '04 Ruthiemobile


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A lot of the things you mention, such as working with your committee, taking questions at your defense, and so on, are going to continue being sort of effective. Your committee is going to notice if you can't confer with them without pulling up ChatGPT, and it will be sort of conspicuous if you can't give answers of your own at your defense.

As for the "entire student body" showing up for defenses to do "gotcha questioning, bent on your abject humiliation", no, I actually don't remember that. Defenses I've attended have tended to be in classroom-sized spaces and attended by a modest number of students and faculty in your specialty area—people you probably know and may have done some collaborations with—and none of them came hoping for your abject humiliation, but they do want to see you know your stuff and not try to BS them.

 

we might be better off. plenty of the old guard make serious mistakes

 

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