{"id":60416,"date":"2024-06-26T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=5d89372598f5dc171a7c0dcc1cf996f0"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:14:18","slug":"ai-can-beat-real-university-students-in-exams-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=60416","title":{"rendered":"AI can beat real university students in exams, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqqqln0eg65o\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: I've seen recent evidence that public chatterbots can beat the _median_ student at \"pick all that apply\" questions in computer engineering, in the sense that bots can swing a C and the students did their best to absorb nothing from the class. \nThe real deal is you _can not_ treat summative assessments that aren't regularly revised and taken in a controlled environment as reliable; the stakes and culture are such that a large fraction of students will \"optimize\" (cheat) to the best of their ability.  Which sucks for instructors who have to deal with editing and scheduling and grading old-school exams, and students with test anxiety and such, but less than getting out-competed by a swarm of know-nothing bros whose test taking strategy only requires \"Ctrl\" \"c\" and \"v.\"<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40804145\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=60416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}