It’s not of much use to me as a law student, but it would make sense to me to design assessments that assume these tools are being used rather than pretending they don’t exist or trying to somehow discover their use.
It’s like using a detector to check if I’ve used a calculator. Like, sure, it’s harder if I don’t but it’s hard to see the educational merit.
I’ve been saying for a while now, education is about knowing enough to pass an exam, not attaining an education. More exam passes more brownie points for the education establishment.
May ultimately need to go continental and start shifting towards oral exams.
How would this work when you’d be found out pretty sharpish when your work isn’t referenced?
Thing with chat gpt is you need to learn how to use it and you need to have a pretty good grasp of the domain you’re asking it to work in to get actual results.
Great example was a guy who proudly posted here a few months ago saying he got it to invent a new programming language based on Fr. Ted. It was only classes and methods named after Fr. Ted. characters and it was written in Python, not a new programming language.
I’ve seen a few videos of people attempting to get it to make a website and they needed to know exactly what they were talking about to get it to actually do anything of use.
At the minute it’s pretty much Google but it takes the copy paste out of it.
OpenAI is designing a model that will be able to detect neural net generated material (allegedly). Should be grand I’d say. This is overblown if you ask me.
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It’s not of much use to me as a law student, but it would make sense to me to design assessments that assume these tools are being used rather than pretending they don’t exist or trying to somehow discover their use.
It’s like using a detector to check if I’ve used a calculator. Like, sure, it’s harder if I don’t but it’s hard to see the educational merit.
I’ve been saying for a while now, education is about knowing enough to pass an exam, not attaining an education. More exam passes more brownie points for the education establishment.
May ultimately need to go continental and start shifting towards oral exams.
How would this work when you’d be found out pretty sharpish when your work isn’t referenced?
Thing with chat gpt is you need to learn how to use it and you need to have a pretty good grasp of the domain you’re asking it to work in to get actual results.
Great example was a guy who proudly posted here a few months ago saying he got it to invent a new programming language based on Fr. Ted. It was only classes and methods named after Fr. Ted. characters and it was written in Python, not a new programming language.
I’ve seen a few videos of people attempting to get it to make a website and they needed to know exactly what they were talking about to get it to actually do anything of use.
At the minute it’s pretty much Google but it takes the copy paste out of it.
OpenAI is designing a model that will be able to detect neural net generated material (allegedly). Should be grand I’d say. This is overblown if you ask me.