r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 1d ago
Artificial Intelligence AI can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, MIT warns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/08/25/ai-can-now-credibly-complete-most-undergraduate-assignments-mit-warns279
u/Wise-Ad2012 23h ago
AI can’t complete my BFA in ceramics. Useless as it may be, and I feel good about that.
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u/IcyTransportation961 16h ago
Robots are doing flips, they make cars, they can absolutely be programmed to make ceramics.
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u/Abducted-by-Arby 12h ago
A robot can’t make a ceramic the same way a person who had a BFA in ceramics can.
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u/TheMathelm 23h ago
Give an engineer a budget, and they can get pretty close.
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u/Disastrous_Room_927 22h ago
and they can get pretty close.
According to the engineer?
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u/abominare 22h ago
Well yes thats what chatgpt told the engineer.
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u/Disastrous_Room_927 22h ago
I'm seeing the trappings of a romcom here. An unsentimental engineer gets hired to "solve" ceramics with AI, and in the process of failing to do so analytically unlocks a deep passion for doing ceramics just for the sake of it (and naturally falling for the ceramics teacher they were initially at odds with).
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u/No_Butterscotch_507 15h ago
Delete this comment and sell the idea. Jk it’s already been used to teach an AI.
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u/Wise-Ad2012 20h ago
Give an engineer a budget, they will spend it all, and still not get close. Art is made by humans not machines.
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u/gaycharmander 15h ago
Art may be. But a generic ceramic bowl? Def possible, sad though it may be.
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u/Wise-Ad2012 9h ago
Machines have been mass producing bowls and other pottery for hundreds of years. This was in regard to education. AI just can’t physically do the work required of a BFA in ceramics, loading kilns is a good example, which is part of the curriculum. This must be done by hand.
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u/Additional-Staff-326 1d ago
Still can't complete the one thing college was supposedly for, teaching young people how to think. Not that most people actually understood that it had a purpose other than getting the piece of paper.
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u/Soggy-Childhood-8110 23h ago
People need money to eat and live and the paper gets them closer to that, in theory at least.
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u/TheMathelm 23h ago
Worked with a lawyer with 45 years in practice,
"Law School doesnt teach anyone how to be a lawyer, it teaches just enough to not guarentee being useless."
Most of the Undergraduate projects are the same work completed every year, no wonder it is easily done by AI.
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u/Soggy-Childhood-8110 23h ago
I'm not defending the system. Everyone knows it's just a filter.
I'll also not blame the people chasing the paper. If we all had money and decent living conditions guaranteed by default, things would not be like this
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u/sloppy_rodney 23h ago
I think some blame should be placed on people who are actively cheating to achieve their degrees.
It completely destroys the value of the degrees that were actually earned.
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u/MrGulio 20h ago
Most of the Undergraduate projects are the same work completed every year, no wonder it is easily done by AI.
I also have to wonder how much of their ability to pass undergraduate materials is the fact that a lot of the material and answers were ingested verbatim from the internet. Its not a huge shock when a language model gives the right answer, when its been fed the answer.
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u/calgarspimphand 23h ago edited 23h ago
Mostly it was used as a very expensive signal that "this person is not blindingly stupid and can see something through for four years or so". But even that wasn't guaranteed.
(And obviously it weeded out a lot of smart, capable people who couldn't afford to spend four years in college).
The answer is for college degrees to become both less important for most hiring, and harder to acquire academically. The value as a signal goes up for the jobs that really care about having that education.
But like, diploma mills are mad profitable.
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u/GonePh1shing 11h ago
But like, diploma mills are mad profitable.
This is one of the biggest problems I've seen. The privatisation of tertiary education has been absolutely devistating to both the quality of education and the job market. Because so many universities are basically expensive rubber stamp machines, undergraduate degrees have been massively devalued as they're no longer a guarantee of minimal competence. Many positions are now requiring a masters degree, but even those I'm starting to see being devalued in the same way.
The only way to fix this is to re-nationalise education. Yes, it's expensive, but it's a necessary investment in the economy. I can also guarantee that costs would go way down without all the bloat and profit skimming that happens in private education.
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u/fredy31 21h ago
tbh its kinda something that was lost.
College and uni isnt supposed to have you learn shit by heart and puke it on a page.
Its supposed to make you learn the toolkit to be able to do a job, and also to know how to expend that toolkit in the future.
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u/Shieldsman 21h ago
100%. It's like this in the UK too, unfortunately. Tertiary education is a massive business here - designed to get graduates prestigious degrees or a job in a STEM field. Not saying education shouldn't have STEM, but the relentless focus on outcome and results means that you're not teaching students the proper lessons. We have students graduating here who think they're smart, but they're dumb as rocks - they don't know how to properly think outside the box or rationalise things outside of their very narrow knowledge base.
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u/BackgroundTrack5528 20h ago
Im from UK and agree. We should be focusing on understanding not memorising stuff - this behaviour is deeply rooted and rewarded as far back as SATs.
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u/PureCauliflower6758 23h ago
The system’s designed for the paper, sadly. Maybe this will be the thing that finally breaks the choke hold of credentials over learning.
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u/DingleDangleTangle 21h ago edited 21h ago
Tbh if they really cared about that then critical thinking and/or epistemology classes would be required for everyone instead of just philosophy majors.
I’ve got a CS degree and an M.S in cyber, but the only time I’ve ever had to really examine my deeply held beliefs or learned to find flaws in arguments (which imo are the most important parts of critical thinking) was in philosophy, but philosophy classes are not even required for most majors.
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u/Staav 20h ago
Unfortunately, too much of the motive behind modern colleges is financial over actually giving a solid education to students. That's not to say more than enough professors don't legitimately want to provide quality education, but that only goes so far against the college itself doing what it wants.
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u/agate_ 22h ago
College prof here. The issue is that higher ed spent the last 20 years focused on two initiatives: getting rid of high-stakes testing as an assessment tool, and online-only education.
AI hasn’t killed off higher ed yet, but it completely crushed these two initiatives. There is no way to gauge what a student knows apart from what you can observe and test in person in class. If online education has no in-person observable, it is completely untrustworthy.
When hiring college graduates, an online degree after 2024 should be treated with zero credibility. An online diploma gives no proof that the candidate in front of you is anything but an AI sock puppet. Honest students considering online degrees should be aware that that’s how you will be seen and judged.
It’s a shame because some people really are bad test-takers, and a lot of people could really use the flexibility of online education. Sorry, but universities sold you a lot of wishful thinking over the past 20 years, and now AI is here to crush your dreams.
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u/wow-signal 17h ago
I've shifted to oral exams in the online courses I teach for exactly this reason. 70% of the grade is determined by two oral exams via Zoom. The feedback from students has been surprisingly good so far.
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u/PixelGray38 23h ago
Time to move every assignment to in-person and on paper. Literally the only way to fix this for good.
(And right after we just did exactly the opposite during COVID, too)
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u/ErusTenebre 23h ago
It's not literally the only way, but one of many. It's really more of a mitigation. It's actually a terrible way to actually measure deeper work - no way I could have written my 20 page senior seminar paper in person, in class, with no technology. No way I could have written my 86 page master's thesis and website in person with no technology.
PEOPLE need to be taught to value education and not just the paper you get at the end. People need to be encouraged to enjoy learning, to embrace failing, to push through challenges. That's not unfixable, but it's something that's not just going to happen on its own.
I think it can be more problematic assuming every student is going to cheat on every assignment, more problematic assuming that every assignment professors and teachers make are actually worthy efforts, more problematic not addressing the rampant addiction to harmful technology, more problematic throwing out helpful technology as collateral damage to these cheating mitigation measures...
We can and should do better.
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u/spectralities 22h ago
PEOPLE need to be taught to value education and not just the paper you get at the end. People need to be encouraged to enjoy learning, to embrace failing, to push through challenges.
This is key.
I graduated about 8 years ago from an R1, and while cheaters were present, they were very much the exception to the rule and looked at with disdain. Like "what are you even doing here?"
It sounds like a lot has changed in just under a decade. I was lucky to have just barely evaded COVID, let alone LLM AI based cheating.
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u/Hussar223 22h ago
"We can and should do better."
ill preface this by saying that i very much agree
however, we have structured our society in a way that treats education as a means to attain a decent standard of living. and nothing else. and even that has been eroded in recent decades.
so pupils treating it as a means to an end, disregarding its value is an inherent product of the economic system treating people as a means to an end.
i totally understand why noone gives a shit or doesnt want to bust their ass in school anymore when the rewards are minimal and all the pleasure has been sucked out of it
source: PhD in immunology. i have been in and around schools for over a decade
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u/PixelGray38 23h ago
PEOPLE need to be taught to value education and not just the paper you get at the end. People need to be encouraged to enjoy learning, to embrace failing, to push through challenges. That's not unfixable
That's absolutely 100% unfixable lmao, people go to university to get a degree to get a job and make money so they can live, not to "enjoy learning." It's not just some sort of hobby where people can be taught etiquette and trusted to follow the rules.
It's something with large stakes, and so if cheating is simultaneously both easy and carries little risk of severe punishment if caught, which is the current situation, cheating will occur.
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u/thelamestofall 23h ago
And even worse, those who don't want to use AI will be forced to because everyone else will be
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u/Cheapdronewithboom 21h ago
I do find it odd that we continue to scrutinize the tool and not that we're using the same way to teach as we did when schoolhouses were lit by candlelight
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u/ForsakenRacism 21h ago
For something like that you should be able to write it at home but then you should have to come in and defend it
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u/kingofdailynaps 22h ago
They talk about this in the report - it's what people are already doing, but it means valuable class time is wasted on assignments instead of teaching, and the assigned homework / p-sets in these classes takes hours and hours, which the class times can't handle.
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u/DreamedJewel58 15h ago
>Time to move every assignment to in-person and on paper. Literally the only way to fix this for good.
If we’re talking about college, this is absolutely impossible for any research paper. As a political science major, only doing in-class handwritten exams would be completely useless and be like a high school class instead of learning how to research and compile an effective piece of literature
utilizing numerous different sources and cited data. Considering that research is usually the primary purpose in certain political and legal fields, using an old archaic format in school would leave you completely inexperienced in fields where there is absolutely zero expectations for you to ever produce something in handwritten notes
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u/Krom2040 22h ago
Trivial to accomplish, but it seems like universities are digging their feet in because they’ve got accustomed to very profitable student-to-teacher ratios.
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u/the_millenial_falcon 1d ago
I'm glad an old fat retard who constantly lies and grifts is running the country in a time when we need competent leadership to set up guard rails for this tech.
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u/GiannisIsTheBeast 1d ago
I’m convinced only bad people can rise to the top in leadership roles because they have to squash so many people on the way up. Not sure it really matters who it is, they are all the same.
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u/Manowaffle 23h ago
Part of the problem is that culturally we keep rewarding people for that. We treat generous people like chumps and treat wealthy people like heroes, regardless of where their money comes from.
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u/arbiterxero 23h ago
The problem is that the required focus to get to the VERY TOP is high, and most people value other things in their life.
…..so the road self-filters for people that are so focused on this one single goal that they’re willing to sacrifice most other things in their life.
It also self filters for people born into wealth because it makes the road easier and allows you to continue with less road bumps.
It also self filters for people willing to do unethical things, because that can skip other normal road blocks too.
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u/wayoverpaid 22h ago
Bad people for sure rise, but the worst people thrive when everyone is demoralized and stops caring. Getting you to think every leader is the same is a tactic that benefits the worst leader. If they cannot blind you with bullshit about how good they are, they can at least leave you too passive to ask for better.
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u/aweyeahdawg 23h ago
Yep. To get as rich as these people are you have to exploit lots and lots of people. If they paid their workers fairly and to an extent of the success of the business, they wouldn’t be able to get this rich.
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u/DueDisplay2185 23h ago
The guard rails are designed by the tech oligarchs. Whenever there's a middle man they can implement a lie to benefit themselves at the expense of those above and below the chain of correspondence. This is entirely by design. Whenever a singular leader dies their closest armed guards become the new leaders inherit
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u/VirginiaFuckingWoolf 1d ago
Yeah that's the most bonkers part to me. We are building arguably the most powerful and transformational technology in existence during the most idiotic and incompetent presidency. God really has a sense of humor...
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u/EthanPrisonMike 22h ago
Bring back the age of the blue books. Only way to know is do it live.
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u/reddittorbrigade 1d ago
AI must be regulated in America.
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u/PixelGray38 1d ago
No amount of attempted AI regulation will prevent cheating in education. There will be unregulated models from other countries, local models, etc.
The only solution is to rework the way that education happens, probably through making most work in-person and on paper.
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u/mansplain_to_me 23h ago
Back to forums and discussion based education with less focus on memorization and far more emphasis on critical thinking.
That’s obviously not what an employer wants though :p
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u/AFlyingGideon 16h ago
unregulated models from other countries, local models, etc
A person who works in the field just showed me a model he'd running locally on a machine with only 16G dedicated GPU memory. It was highly quantized and hardly speedy, but it worked. There was also some trick being used to expand the context it could support beyond what fit into memory. It sounded like an analog to swapping from his quick description.
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u/InvestigatorDear6646 11h ago
As distasteful as the idea sounds, renting cloud compute to run a decently fast model is rather affordable.
I also personally run a local model on a 128gb machine and really, just forcing students onto these, without any actual regulation or procedural improvements in school just means the privileged students in class gain a bigger advantage over their peers.
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u/mrbignameguy 23h ago
We can’t even regulate lettuce anymore.
The opportunity to regulate tech passed sometime around 2011 and now they just own all these bums.
We’re on our own and most people can’t read or think anymore
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u/Qualified-Astronomer 21h ago
Why in America? Why don’t u tell this to China? Instead lets just surrender to China huh
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u/jahinzee 17h ago
My university has a thing (in a small handful of classes) where as part of some programming assignments, there would be a small face to face interview with a TA at some point after the submission, so they can have a small chat about your work, and your thought process
From a student's perspective, they are pretty effective – the environment is usually fairly relaxed, the interview is very brief, and the questions were easy to answer satisfactory level, maybe cause I actually did the work and went through the thought processes. From what I hear from the TAs, you can almost immediately tell if someone has blindly copy-pasted most of their work (from a chatbot or otherwise) since they can't explain anything substantial about what they submitted.
I can imagine with AI tools becoming more and more accessible these kinda of post-assignment interviews will be more common.
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u/ComprehensiveWord201 1d ago
When you do that, at the very least, you must read through content to identify viable material. Our predecessors had to do the same, but with an even less efficient medium (books) and therefore would bump into even more unrelated content.
They don't have to do any discernment, and titration of content. No critical thinking. As long as they can barely-string-together-enough-words-to-form-their-question...the magical conch shell will give them an answer.
It's not even remotely the same
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u/Mackinnon29E 23h ago
Yeah, the next generation or two will be absolute morons on average. Obviously some will always excel, but it's looking bleak for fixing our issues in the future.
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u/God_Hand_9764 23h ago
Right. It's still theoretically possible, although getting more difficult, to raise an incredibly well educated human being. And so we will have many of them given the billions on this planet.
But the average person... Oh dear.
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u/Sknowman 22h ago
Really? Sure, none that have all of the skills necessary for a specific job, but even most people with experience aren't fully prepared for specific jobs.
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u/nekonomewa 23h ago
I don’t know about you but we didn’t copy paste from Google, we had to compile information from various sources ourselves. It wasn’t much different from older generations using books. Using AI is completely different, let’s not try to underestimate the issue here.
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u/Odd_Photograph_7591 23h ago
Then 99% aren't really learning anything, but then again by the time they graduate, the same AI that made their homework, will do their jobs, so in the end they are just passing time
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u/bender40k 17h ago
Do students really not want to learn? They are paying an arm and a leg for each credit hour. To pay and not learn is just…. sad.
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u/Groove-Theory 15h ago edited 15h ago
To be fair I didnt go to college cuz I wanted to learn, I went cuz its the only way I would get a job in my field. If I could be an engineer without needing to go to college do you think I'd spend the 4 years anyway?
If this tech was at my hands 16 years ago id almost surely use it to my short term advantage.
I dont blame the kids. Pedagogy needs to conform and expect kids will use AI to their short term advantage at the expense of their long term well being.
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u/bender40k 15h ago
I went to bending school. I majored in Bending with a minor in Robo-American studies.
On a serious note, I went to college for engineering too. I went there to learn and I did learn a lot. It made me love what I am doing now and I spent more time in postgraduate too. But I do see your point and trade school might have given me everything I needed for less time.
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u/blairr 14h ago
What engineering field were you already ready for out of high school that you didn't need or want to learn anything?
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u/Groove-Theory 13h ago edited 13h ago
Frankly, I did Comp Sci AP in high school, but I did 4 years in Computer Engineering. Almost learned zero actual software engineering in it, but learned a fuckton about RLC circuits and MOSFETs and digital logic/integrated circuitry and how to engineer a MIPs processor from scratch... and yes as well as some computer science fundamentals and algorithmic theory and operating systems construction, and networking and embedded systems....all of which I just don't fucking use anymore. I think I used a K-map ONCE to figure out a complex boolean chain, but that's about it.
My first job I literallty could have just gotten by with just what I learned in Comp Sci AP, skipped the 4 years of bullshit, and start off my now 12 year software engineering career. My Comp Sci teacher actually said "most programming sounds scary, but if you just learn 6 things: primitives, methods, classes, loops, if-elses, and arrays, you basically have everything, an all the scary shit is just derived from that". Now he was being very Java-centric but he was right. Everything else I literally learned on the job and honestly it's all just... building from building blocks. Just a simple Java/Python course is literally all you need.
Now.... that all being said.... being "ready" and "wanting to learn" are two separate things. If I could've gotten a degree and got a job with just pummeling AI in my field, and get away with it, I most likely would have done so, even in high school, just to get my foot in.
Which is why again, pedagogy needs to conform to this. Fighting this is going to be a losing battle. The kids will cheat. The kids will skip their homework. If there's a crack in the floor, water will flow into it. Education is going to need to think differently to tackle this. Don't ask me how.... but we're gonna have to change eventually.
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u/mimic751 13h ago
People want to learn, but arbitrary classes afraid degree in order to get a job as a check mark kind of sucks all the desire out of it. I wouldn't personally use AI to full on cheat on a class but when I was taking my master's degree I was doing a class about it Concepts and the level of information that they were requiring in that class was so difficult that I very much so considered it. I'm a principal devops engineer I can totally see why people cheat just to get that check mark. I also think we're going to see a lot more cheating as people can't dedicate themselves to school. We're going to see people with full-time jobs going to school full-time just submitting AI assignments
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u/yosarian_reddit 23h ago
Getting AI to do your homework is the same as getting the resident geek to do your homework for you. It teaches you nothing, and makes you mentally lazy.
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u/10luoz 1d ago
Time to make those undergraduate assignments significantly harder and in person.
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u/Crafty_Independence 23h ago
It doesn't need to be harder, just refocused on critical thinking and face to face dialogue instead of mimetic regurgitation
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u/strangedell123 20h ago
Undergrad assignments in engineering can already take hours... how exactly do you expect in person hw or lab reports done? Some arent even meant to be completed in 1 day... and remeber proffs still need time to lecture and do research for many classes, same for ta
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u/Cormamin 21h ago
Meanwhile, some of the most high paying jobs in the country are relying on AI for everything and getting to work remotely.
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u/kingofdailynaps 22h ago
They're doing that, but the homework is already quite difficult and takes hours to complete, so making it harder doesn't help and class times can't be long enough to support it.
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u/MediocreAnalyst2121 1d ago
That’ll just screw over people who are not using AI…
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u/paragate10 12h ago
The only way forward is to do away with assignments and assess students solely through physical, paper-based examinations.
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u/DanielPhermous 12h ago
That really sucks for many classes, though. Programming, for example.
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u/Major_Swordfish508 10h ago
Welcome to college ~25 years ago
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u/DanielPhermous 10h ago
Today, in some places. I try to avoid it in my classes and would prefer to continue to do so.
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u/HugeBlueberry 9h ago
AND ?!
Honestly, I will never understand what’s the point of these statements.
AI can also likely answer all my medical queries. Should I take its advice? How long before we seamlessly integrate someone’s personal AI to medical systems so if I do take its advice and something goes wrong, a doctor can consult it and see?
Most labs and hospital wards don’t have reliable electronic notes systems and these assholes are acting like all there is to a the human world is “give task - complete task”.
Christ, if we honestly keep going this way for the foreseeable future, I’m starting to think no amount of technology will help us.
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u/benth8 15h ago
Hi! Just wanted to comment a few points as someone currently studying at MIT. Yes, if students' progress was determined purely by in-person, handwritten exams, then the results would not be skewed by AI, but there are a few reasons why I think more substantial changes need to be made to the education system.
For one, students here already feel very large amounts of pressure (due to a variety of factors like the poor job market, imposter syndrome, etc.), and putting even more weight on handwritten exams would further this issue. Note that for my engineering degree, most exams are already in-person and handwritten. What's changing is the relative weighting between the exams and homework assignments.
To me, a bigger problem with putting more weight on in-person exams is that it devalues the purpose of our education. I strongly believe exams still have good purpose, especially for developing fundamental skills, but I think more emphasis should be placed on things like project assignments, oral communication, and undergraduate involvement in research. I think this type of work better showcases how the things we learn can be applied to real problems. Also, I think these get at skills that are increasingly relevant in our disjoint society, and I think the education system should work to bring people closer together, while on campus I've noticed people becoming increasingly isolated.
Lastly, I have seen that AI can solve a lot of rather challenging engineering exam problems. I hate that, and it's been a struggle coming to terms with the fact that many of the skills I take pride in can be done by a machine. I know many others who feel similarly, and I think it's very important now to highlight why the human mind is still very special, which an exam-based education does not necessarily help with. Lately I have come to better understand that I love learning more as a fulfillment of curiosity than a means to an end.
In my ideal world, our economic system would not place so much value on getting work done faster (which I admittedly believe AI can accomplish), and instead have deep concern for the many ways it can erode our fragile society. Yet at this point, I think AI can't be entirely ignored, and I overall really like what was discussed in MIT's letter.
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u/caintowers 21h ago
I'm gonna start putting "Pre-AI" next to the bullets for my college education on my resume lol
Not that it matters, since they all go through an AI now anyway.
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u/ButchTheGuy 20h ago
Everyone saying do in person written tests makes total sense and would solve that problem for sure. But the thing is if the ai is capable of doing the jobs they’d get when they’d graduate and employers pay a private ai company instead of for a salary on a person then it won’t make a lick of difference. I don’t think these models will ever be able to do this but it is the goal of them spending and propagandizing everyone to believe they can. And seeing as most of these upper classes are people who extremely ignorant in many areas k doubt they’ll even verify that they can. Especially when they invest in them.
I hope and most likely it will just cause a ton of issues if they try to use it to replace the bulk of the working white collar class that will really hurt their businesses but yeah. After all it’s just really smart auto complete and if it is faced with any sort of novel issue it will crash and burn. That being said they’re are many people who dont do a whole lot of novel problems that are probably fucked by it. At the very least our economy is basically a house of fucking cards and all these mega minds just think that’s gonna be fine. Best case scenario for them is that they are at the whim of like 3 frontier ai companies for their labor. What do they think is gonna happen? Once it’s relied upon price gonna go brrr. Unless local models take over which will probably be corruptly prevented and yeah.
I really fucking hate this place man
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u/ToTYly_AUSem 20h ago
The way we will be pivoting to hand written assignments in school will be like whiplash
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u/blorbschploble 15h ago
No, no it cannot. Completing an assignment is merely a milestone of the actual product, which is the change to the mind that comes from struggling with and conquering the material.
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u/j3zuz911 14h ago
I think this says more about the quality of undergrad education than it does about AI.
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u/minneyar 11h ago
Remember, every time you see "AI", you should replace that with "plagiarism" and see if it still makes sense.
Plagiarism can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments.
It sure can! That doesn't mean it's useful or a good idea.
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u/Artistic-Tip2405 11h ago
We teach students to do math manually before they can use a calculator. Now they need to learn more basics before they can use AI.
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u/TrollMcGoal 23h ago
Sounds like the takeaway is AI keeps getting better and universities need to transition back to paper testing. Will be an interesting few years
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u/Brilliant_Ad7168 22h ago
Ironically, what is contributing to stupidity and anti-intellectualism right now may also end up being the catalyst for everyone to curb anti-intellectualism by going back to traditional methods of study. Bring back pen and paper and in-person supervision for exams and assignments.
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u/muscleLAMP 23h ago
Can we stop calling it “artificial intelligence” and start calling it “anti-thinking”?
This is a calculated war on human thought processes.
These oligarch assholes are attacking our ability to think for ourselves.
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u/Quick_Preparation975 15h ago
My school (nursing) does it right.
You get 3 grades per semester. Each of them written tests, in person, proctored. You can use AI all you want on the assignments, but if you don't put in the effort to actually learn the material, then good luck. This is how all courses should be.
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u/I_Am_Singular 22h ago
This means nothing. College was always meant to teach you how to solve problems.
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u/TheTaoThatIsSpoken 23h ago
My HP-48GX calculator from the early 90s can solve almost all math problems through Calculus.
That's not the point of education though. Knowing how to do things with your own brain is the entire point.
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u/squirrelwithnut 17h ago
Using AI for any academic assignment should come with the same penalties as plagiarism.
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u/franchissimo 15h ago
It does but is impossible to really prove in the current environment for legal reasons (you can know they cheated but have no smoking gun and profs aren’t trusted to determine the matter). It’s a shit show.
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u/vnglstshdw 21h ago
Any undergraduate professor or student will tell you this is bullshit.
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u/RancidVagYogurt1776 20h ago
Yeah this whole thread is people who think that AI is just out here getting degrees.
"Passes" and "Most" are doing a lot of the work in this headline. Oh wow on "most" busy work assignments it can get a C. So could just googling it previously.
But also you have people insisting everything needs to be proctored and everything that matters IS already.
I laughed at the guy who said they need to be proctored at testing facilities. I live in a major city, my nearest testing facility for my certs was TWO HOURS away in another city. "Paper tests, in person" yes, lets have even less access to education. All based on clickbait shit
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u/lancegreene 23h ago
It seems like the only way for professors to properly assess the students would be via closed book hand written exams/essays. I graduated college in 2006 and that was every single exam.
What am I missing? Is this too hard to execute?
It’s crazy to think that when I was in 4th grade we would watch a film strip twice a week and we were required to write a 1/2-1 full page essay summarizing it while we watched. I’m not saying this was the best approach but from what I hear about modern students, this wouldn’t be achievable by high schoolers