Comment by otabdeveloper4
9 months ago
Anecdotally: schoolkids are at the leading edge of LLM innovation, and nowadays all homework assignments are explicitly made to be LLM-proof. (Well, at least in my son's school. Yours might be different.)
This effectively makes LLMs useless for education. (Also sours the next generation on LLMs in general, these things are extremely lame to the proverbial "kids these days".)
How do you make homework assignments LLM-proof? There may be a huge business opportunity if that actually works, because LLMs are destroying education at a rapid pace.
By giving pen and paper exams and telling your students that the only viable preparation strategy is doing the hw assignments themselves :)
You wish. I used to think that too. But it turns out, nowadays, every single exam in person is done with a phone hidden somewhere, with various efficiency, and you can't really strip students before they enter the room.
Some teachers try to collect the phones beforehand, but then students simply give out older phones and keep their active ones with them.
You could try to verify that the phones they're giving out are working by calling them, but that would take an enormous amount of time and it's impractical for simple exams.
We really have no idea how much AI is ruining education right now.
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Or you simply account for it and provide equally challenging tasks adjusted for the tools of the time. Give them access to the best LLMs money can buy.
After all, they will grow up next to these things. They will do the homework today, by the time they graduate the LLM will take their job. There might be human large langage model managers for a while, soon to be replaced by the age of idea men.
Making in-person tests the only thing that counts toward your grade seems to be a step in the right direction. If students use AI to do their homework, it will only hurt them in the long run.
You just (lol) need to give non-standard problems and demand students to provide reasoning and explanations along with the answer. Yeah, LLMs can "reason" too, but it's obvious when the output comes from an LLM here.
(Yes, that's a lot of work for a teacher. Gone are the days when you could just assign reports as homework.)
Can you provide sample questions that are "LLM proof" ?
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> This effectively makes LLMs useless for education.
No. You're only arguing LLMs are useless at regurgitating homework assignments to allow students to avoid doing it.
The point of education is not mindless doing homework.