I used to be an academic.
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That is not something that we were ever trained (or expected) to be able to - or, to have to - deal with.
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Hm..
That is not something that we were ever trained (or expected) to be able to - or, to have to - deal with.
There are some Aussie Universities looking to make students write their exam essays in an exam room in front of invigilators.
There is also software that can be used, not to grade essays, but to evaluate the writer's comprehension level. Get some base line readings, then compare later essays to the baseline and what ChatGBT produces. If there is an unexplained change in reading, then please explain yourself...
As a teacher myself (in the primary school setting), I wonder if we will ever come to the point where it's assumed that students will be leveraging on AI for their work, and the way we assess them evolves as well.
For example, I fed a sample math problem into ChatGPT and out of 5 attempts, it returned 1 right solution and 4 wrong ones. Imagine with students were presented with all 5 workings and made to identify the correct answer, as well as identify what was wrong with the working for the other 4. That could be one way of testing for conceptual understanding.
Or when I got it to generate an essay and showed it to my colleague, she commented that the text was extremely factual and lacked any adjectives and other describing words. So at a glance, she was (still) able to tell when an essay was not being written by a student (or at least suspect enough).
Likewise, what if AI could be programmed to push out wrong answers instead, and the onus is on the student to verify the answers generated, and rewrite it into something that makes sense.
IE: Rather than ban it for students, leverage it to create a system based on the assumption that content is free, and the real skill is in modifying it into something that is true or better. That would be what separates people from AI. AI will give you a certain baseline, humans improve on it.
Hello everyone, been awhile as I had a rather nice holiday and mini-family reunion after 3 years. I am very sorry for those of you who had a rough time of it during the holiday break, as I read through now- even if I don't mention it and have never met any of you I am thinking of you.
While I had a good holiday meeting Mom unfortunately on her return home an old hip injury flaired up and she required surgery but is recovering nicely.
Now back to the grind as our students arrive on Tuesday for the spring semester and despite the busy period am looking forward to it.
Weather here has gotten cold but with the lengthening days comes hope - the worst as usual in the Geneva lake region is the wind which makes the cold all the more bitter. I hope to get to the mountains these weekends though to enjoy the snow and some walks before spring.
Oh and saw some good shows over the break, a decent movie last night "A Pale blue Eye" with Christian Bale, the excellent "Andor" and FINALLY the teaser trailer for the very last part of the final season of Attack on Titan (first of two parts this year lol) bringing it to an end after 10 years.
While I had a good holiday meeting Mom unfortunately on her return home an old hip injury flaired up and she required surgery but is recovering nicely.
Now back to the grind as our students arrive on Tuesday for the spring semester and despite the busy period am looking forward to it.
Weather here has gotten cold but with the lengthening days comes hope - the worst as usual in the Geneva lake region is the wind which makes the cold all the more bitter. I hope to get to the mountains these weekends though to enjoy the snow and some walks before spring.
Oh and saw some good shows over the break, a decent movie last night "A Pale blue Eye" with Christian Bale, the excellent "Andor" and FINALLY the teaser trailer for the very last part of the final season of Attack on Titan (first of two parts this year lol) bringing it to an end after 10 years.
It's a brave new world. And the AI is going to continue to develop. I am not panicking, but this is going to be a PITA trying sort out what work is appropriately the student's and what work is a machine's. There are equality implications as well, for I am sure that the best AI, like the best universities, won't be cheap.
We are considering a range of possibilities, from banning the use of AI, to making students declare the extent to which they used it, to formulating questions that AI would struggle to answer.
One of our discussions about the medium term is the extent we should embrace this and teach our students to use AI responsibly, in the same way now we talk the students about how to use Google and online bibliographic services. And we have considered one approach consisting of generating an AI response to a questions and have the students critique that, but I imagine that would get boring for students very quickly.
Personally I think the idea of being able to detect AI generated output (or edited forms thereof) is a non-starter. AI is continually improving its language skills. Turing would be proud. Anyway, I have been trying to raise the alarm for some time now at my institution, but right now we do not even have a policy about whether students can use this new information technology, nor how they should cite it. It's not just students - academic papers have appeared with AI agents as co-authors. And we are by no means atypical - journalism, creative writing, law, talking therapy (counselling), teaching, political discourse etc. are all going to be impacted. Interesting times.
Want to be the happiest worker? Become a lumberjack. Want to be the most miserable worker? Become a lawyer.
Interesting article on the WaPo, based on a Dept of Labor survey.
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Interesting article on the WaPo, based on a Dept of Labor survey.
Analysis | The happiest, least stressful, most meaningful jobs in America
Trees make us happy, according to data, even when we're chopping them down.
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Anyone who knows The Lumberjack Song already knows this.
And since there is no Lawyer Song, well, the conclusion should be obvious.
Seems like the same phenomenon as life itself. Seems so slow in the beginning but faster by the end
Yea see some dusk after five now. Hopefully will be driving home in twilight. Favorite time to drive. It's light enough to see decent but the sun is still hidden so no blinding glare. The downside is that it's always when the clocks change so it doesn't last long
Thank you. I have been reading much on the pro's and con's of this. My guess is that it will become like Google - ubiquitous, difficult to distinguish from student work, but an essential aid for many students. We won't be able to prohibit it or detect it as time goes by. We'll see how this pans out, but I wouldn't want to be a young academic just now.@VulchR Came across this article, might be worth a read for you.
Five Days in Class with ChatGPT – The Alperovitch Institute
alperovitch.sais.jhu.edu
I'm a lawyer and it's not ok. I stress all night and litigate all day
Time for a career switch then. Lots of opportunities for lumberjacks.I'm a lawyer and it's not ok. I stress all night and litigate all day
Yea fortunately not me personally, just my attempt at the Lawyer Song.
I don’t think there is. Those jobs don’t grow on trees you know.
What I'm about to explain is probably very much a high school thing (correct me if I'm wrong). But we have something called the Council for Academic and Community Integrity (CACI). My school has not addressed the use (misuse) of ChatGPT, but I've been told that anyone who uses it for an essay, exam, etc. is incurring a zero and will be referred to the CACI for plagiarism. Now does that actually happen? I have no idea—because the CACI is formed by students, not faculty. Anyway, just thought I'd add that tidbit...
But I'm nowhere near you guys in terms of professionalism, and I have no idea how I would stop students from using ChatGPT if I was a teacher...
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Everybody has skin in this game whether they recognise it or not. Right now we're trying to determine what faculty think, but we'll be asking our students and the public as well. This kind of AI is going to impact on a lot of jobs, both white-collar and skilled blue-collar, not just schools and universities. People are comparing this to the invention of the personal computer and the internet. Time will tell, but in any case we'll need to make sure that no one group dominates the conversations about it.
I am almost certain, though, that the ability to detect the work done by AI will decrease to 0 as the AI becomes more sophisticated. We'll be faced with not being able to detect AI plagiarism at all at some point, which might mean going back to in-person invigilated exams written by hand or oral examinations. Ugh.
So what you are saying is I should finally get around to getting a degree? If I start now I could be done before I retire!
The Isle of Cats - what a beautiful Board game! Cats, cats everywhere! Rats, treasures, fish as currency, and did I say… cats?!
Beautiful design with easy-to learn rules, however the frustration (in a fun way) level will be very high with this one!
Most importantly, to complete the setup this game asks to put your pet cat in the box.
(None of the below pics is mine)
Beautiful design with easy-to learn rules, however the frustration (in a fun way) level will be very high with this one!
Most importantly, to complete the setup this game asks to put your pet cat in the box.
(None of the below pics is mine)
Let's reverse places. With the warm rains some of our local trees started blossoming weeks ago. Nothing more exhilarating that waking up to a snow covered landscape, firing up the snow blower and watch the snow fly ...
We've had one of the coldest December-January periods I can remember, with whole weeks of overnight lows down to -4,5,6C and days where it's struggled to get back above freezing. Even the milder, wetter spells haven't been notably warm, unlike what has been the case in the last few winters so I think this has suppressed any premature blooming! It's usually pretty rare to get more than -2 or -3 overnight here on a sustained basis. The only snow we've had so far didn't lay, though it's usually from about now we get it if we're going to. A few years back we got blanketed in March though, that really pushed everything back.
Best and most genuine expression of what unconditional love is, that I've heard.
So killing Ceasar is the surest way to bring about spring?🤔 Those senators should have stabbed him the first month of the year.😏 Oh wait, they probably wanted to but got confused by the Julian calendar. Only a madman would give the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months such confusing names.😁 Septem (7), Octo (8), Novem (9) and Decem (10) in a Latin.
Obviously they stabbed him only to add a month (July) to a beautiful summer. #geniusmove