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AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows

https://canews24.online/?p=71
36•Edymilson•48m ago

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julienchastang•15m ago
This article is about the Economist's summary of a journal article so we have a (AI?) summary of a summary. Not very helpful. Here are a couple of better references:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

https://archive.is/w1eng

Also note the findings are more nuanced than may appear on the surface.

jimmar•14m ago
In my professional career, my employers give me a lot more assignments than exams.
alpha_squared•10m ago
Your career is a continual exam and the assignments are just parts of it.
oreally•8m ago
Disagree. School exams test for academia-readiness too. And sometimes the schools and lecturers are filled with ideology irrelevant to real work.

Career exams tend to be a mix but a lot less ideology.

phoghed•6m ago
Fortune cookie ass statement.

Your career is more akin to the totality of school than it is to any specific facet of it imo.

The social aspects are more important than the exam sitting most of the time.

contravariant•8m ago
One of the main reasons safety standards are written in blood.
tikhonj•6m ago
The exams aren't the thing that matter, they're an experiment to measure the thing that matters. Which, presumably, still matters at work!
cube00•5m ago
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".

After all, you might get slimed (shout out to anyone who still remembers "You Can't Do That on Television")

blitzar•2m ago
Your employer gave you your job based on your exam results.
nerevarthelame•1m ago
Every conversation you have with a person is an "exam." Not being able to extemporaneously express yourself or reason analytically without running to Claude seems undesirable.
a2ff6eeb0•13m ago
Yeah, obviously. We also don't know how to use flint and steel to start fires any more. You wouldn't outlift a crane, why would you want to outhomework an AI? And you can't even argue that this toil is going to help in the workplace, because the workplace is now AI-native, and you can offload everything to AI.
cyanydeez•11m ago
you know we let social media companies cause massive harm over 2 decades; but clearly, this will be deifferent!
add-sub-mul-div•9m ago
Sure. Let's not think too hard about what it means that general thinking and creativity are the skills we've stopped practicing this time. It will be fine.

(You may be making the same point as me or the opposite point, I can't tell what's sarcasm anymore. I try to make mine obvious.)

antonyt•6m ago
These are students aged 12-18. Even if we ignore all the other negative externalities of AI and assume it will be ubiquitous and cheap, kids need repetition and exercises to make inferences and develop intuition.

Sure - you can ask AI to, for instance, calculate how much money you'll have given a fixed principal and a compounding interest rate. But we need to get a kid to the point where they even understand what the question to be answered is. If they're using AI all along the way, they are developing less understanding of what fractions and exponential growth are.

Will it stop the really smart and motivated kids? Of course not. But at population scale there will be big consequences.

john_strinlai•4m ago
zemo•8m ago
abolish homework
Boss0565•3m ago
We cannot be boosting AI slop like this
>You wouldn't outlift a crane, why would you want to outhomework an AI?

the goal of homework is not to get the best homework score (or "outhomework an ai"), it is to learn the content and prepare for the exam (and, at this age, "learn to learn").

jbstack•3m ago
The difference is that I could learn to use a flint and steel pretty easily if I wanted to. I don't need to carry out that particular task, but my ability to adapt to new problems means I can carry out more relevant tasks when needed. The most useful part of school and university for me wasn't that I learned the difference between a cirrocumulus and a cirrostratus cloud in geography class. It's that I learned how to learn.

If we let children cheat their way through school and justify it by saying they don't really need to think for themselves anymore, then we're going to end up with a generation of adults who struggle to take on any difficult tasks at all.

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https://canews24.online/?p=71
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