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The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…
A worrying account. Feel free to post more information, links etc. in the comments.
(Thanks to Cesar Palacios Gonzalez for the pointer.)
This one cuts close to home: I was a postdoc in Hull in the 80s, in a department (Maths) that eliminated the degree in 2005 (https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/feb/12/highereducation.education), part of a UK trend during that period of cutting STEM programs. I believe that the department now offers degrees again, but that is only possible if a viable core of the faculty remains.
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