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Comment by russfink

3 months ago

Conspicuously missing is a direct mention of AI tools. Is MIT, like others, side-stepping the use of AI by students to (help them) complete homework assignments and projects?

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Reubachi  3 months ago

A question. If you think AI use by students to "bypass homework" is anything remotely approaching a problem, then I must ask you how you felt/feel about:

- University being cost prohibitive to 90 percent of all humans as financial driven institutions, not performance.

- Before AI, 20 + years of google data indexing/searches fueling academia

- study groups before that allowing group completion (or, cheating, in your view)

- The textbook that costs 500 dollars, or the textbook software from pearson that costs 500, that has the homework answers.

I think it's a silly posit that students using AI is...anything to even think about. I use it at my fortune 500 job every day, and have learned about my field's practical day-to-day from it than any textbook, homework assignment, practical etc.

  • ghaff  3 months ago

    >study groups before that allowing group completion (or, cheating, in your view)

    Totally dependent on school/department/professor policy.

    Some are very strict. Others allow working together on assignments. (And then there are specific group projects.)