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10.22.2024

Well, as we move forward, we move backwards.  Just today I read about a smart toilet, running a photo of your left behinds through AI to find any issues.  Yucky, but it makes sense … I just don’t want my health insurance company in on the action.

On to less gross fare, this from Business Insider, by Jordan Hart and Aaron Mok, on August 13, 2024, titled, College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT.

And, of course, you can click the link below:

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-driving-return-to-paper-exams-written-essays-at-universities-2023-8

Now, for my weekly listeners, you know that my feeling on AI is that it will lead to great advancements, but yet require some old school backward tech movement to allow for verification and authentication.

In this example, pencil and bluebooks will make, at a minimum, a temporary return.

Per the article, “OpenAI's ChatGPT is advancing every day. The chatbot achieved the highest score on an AP Biology exam and passed a freshman year at Harvard with a 3.34 GPA.”

Think about that for a moment … AI can handle the Ivy League.  Well, most of us old enough to hunt down a calculator in the 7th grade can testify that finding the easy way out by way of tech so we can go outside and play … we actually get the motivation.

But this, of course, is next level.  And teachers and professors are, of course, having a reaction. 

Two parter, really.  First, not much learning.  And second, how will teachers teach?  That is, how will they develop students? The basic exercise of learning.

Well, welcome to pain kids.  Real written exams and even oral exams … of the not so dental kind.

Matter-of-fact, I had to pass an oral exam in graduate school, and frankly, it wasn’t just grueling, but unnecessary and painful.  Being measured is something the AI fearful should at least make a note of.

That said, intellectual growth is meant to be painful.  So goes learning.  Easy for some, not so easy for most. 

Couple of things … that really stand the test of time.  Don’t cheat … as you only cheat yourself.  And ‘no mas’ on plagiarizing. Teach that now, as politicians pull this stunt on the regular, and so do many academics … those same academics that are trying to save the lambs from themselves.

While even our so-called best and brightest make tactical decisions for the sake of ease and credit (I have seen some well regarded profs do it), you cannot cheat talent.  Sure, I can look like an NFL quarterback, but I have none of the talent.  So I can work to get better and be the best ‘me’, but even at my best, looking the part was never going to create a win.

And that is ok.  The big lesson that AI can’t really teach us.  That maybe, just maybe, we should just work hard and not feel so bad about a hard earned C.  Besides, a student can always turn-the-page and improve.  Something that comes from within.  Even John F. Kennedy was considered a ‘C’ student, and last time I checked, he did more than a little to contribute to society.

Would JFK have resorted to AI?  Probably.  But remember, he learned more outside the classroom than inside those walls.

Fact is, you probably learn more on the playground and in shop class, anyway.

More later.

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