released several new versions<\/a>. Last year alone, more than seven million pairs were sold.<\/p>\n\u201cWearable AI is as much of a challenge to exams as ChatGPT was to essays in 2022 and I just don\u2019t think there is any real way that we can reliably have exam practices moving forward,\u201d Corbin said.<\/p>\n
A \u2018viable technology\u2019 for cheating<\/p>\n
A year ago, Assistant Professor Meng Zili at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) noticed a pair of stylish glasses worn by a student during an exam he was proctoring. As a researcher working on AI glasses, the frames caught his attention.<\/p>\n
The glasses turned out to be ordinary. But the incident inspired him to test commercial AI glasses in an undergraduate level exam of an electrical engineering course.<\/p>\n
The result was striking, showing that AI glasses are a \u201cviable technology\u201d for handling exams, Meng said. By simply looking at the exam paper, the glasses could transmit questions to a connected AI large language models, which generated answers and displayed them on the lenses.<\/p>\n
The score generated with the device placed it among the top five in a class of over 100 students, significantly exceeding the average score of 72.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter conducting the experiment, it really raises the question of how much knowledge students actually need to memorize for exams, versus whether we should allow them to use AI during assessment, given what AI is now capable of,\u201d Meng said.<\/p>\n
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A screenshot of what the AI glasses display for an undergraduate level final exam for the course “Computer Communication Networks” at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). – Courtesy Zili Meng and Jun Zhang<\/p>\n
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A screenshot of what the AI glasses display for an undergraduate level final exam for the course “Computer Communication Networks” at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). – Courtesy Zili Meng and Jun Zhang<\/p>\n
Zhang Jun, an electrical engineering professor at HKUST who co-led the project with Meng, said that with how fast technology and AI are evolving, education on the ground is finding it hard to keep up \u2013 \u201cevery teacher feels that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real question is how quickly we can rethink and adapt our education system \u2014 how we change the way we teach, and how we evaluate students,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But despite being a major disruption to education, the power of AI should not be a reason to discourage its use, said Kong Siu Cheung, a professor and director of the AI and Digital Competence Education Center at the Education University of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Instead, the educational systems should focus on developing students\u2019 thinking capabilities and metacognition to prevent over-reliance on AI, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should use technology. We should use AI. We should not just say avoid it, stop using it\u2026 The bottom line is: don\u2019t outsource your thinking capability,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
CNN\u2019s Gawon Bae in Seoul, Wayne Chang in Taipei and Junko Ogura in Tokyo contributed reporting.<\/p>\n
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