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Just let students use whatever tool they want and make them compete for top grades. Distribution curving is already normal in education. If an AI answer is the grading floor, whatever they add will be visible signal. People who just copy and paste a lame prompt will rank at the bottom and fail without any cheating gymnastics. Plus this is more like how people work.

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> Plus this is more like how people work.

if we want to educate people 'how people work', companies should be hiring interns and teaching them how people work. university education should be about education (duh) and deep diving into a few specialized topics, not job preparedness. AI makes this disconnect that much more obvious.

If that was the model all but a small handful of universities would be shut down tomorrow. It’s impossible to fund that many university degrees without the promise of increased earnings after completion.

So shut them down. What’s the point of having them anyway if the value proposition is only a long expensive internship with negative value outputs? Have the interns do actually useful stuff.

I think the real problem is that AIs have super human performance on one off assessments like exams, but fall over when given longer term open ended tasks.

This is why we need to continue to educate humans for now and assess their knowledge without use of AI tools.

Works until someone can afford a better and more expensive AI tool, or can afford to pay a knowledgeable human to help them answer.

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