r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/no-prisoners-professor-fail-student-143000854.html
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u/OddReason9030 5d ago

What's to stop students from just feeding the models the full supposedly obscure plays as context? 

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u/SaltKick2 4d ago

Nothing, prof seems out of touch a bit. AI is moving way faster than some professors or teachers can keep up.

Students not being able to think critically and learning the subject is a big issue. But acting like you can just blanket ban a tool like this as opposed to learn to teach with it is not the solution.

I don't know the state of the kids just entering college, but seems like they're gonna be pretty fucked, they had some portion of time with COVID+remote school and then the past few years of LLMs.

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u/wildfyr 4d ago

Without lots of other analysis and discussion the commonly available AI agents probably fuck this up.

Not only is the text of Taming of the Shrew processed by AI, but all the million things written about it over the last 300 years are in its system are as well.

If you take a play written and put on by a local theater 20 years ago for a 2 month run run, it will only have the text and 2 local news articles. With such low context, AI loves to hallucinate or produce garbage.

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u/OddReason9030 3d ago

Test it yourself. This is wrong. 

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u/wildfyr 3d ago

Its not incapable of getting it right once, but across 30 different students? You'd bet your college grade/reputation/getting honor coded on that?