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I don’t have much to say beyond: (1) I emphatically agree with everything Berg says, and (2) I am appalled…
I don’t think focusing on the label matters so much for answering the question. Substitute “artificial intelligence’, if you don’t…
It just occurred to me that one could subject one of the major AI companies’ LLMs to the aforesaid experiments…
Conversations about Pangram frequently involve people who say they’ve seen evidence it doesn’t work, but can’t produce it, so I’ll…
Replying to DW’s reply to me: Let’s grant Pangram is reliable in the standard cases (I still don’t fully trust…
I’d assumed Brian Garrett’s comment was meant as parody.
Replying to Steve Innsbruck (just on the issue of Pangram reliability): “Some of the discussions I’ve seen about it in…
An interesting piece by philosopher Anastasia Berg (UC Irvine) at CHE. Once again (given reader interest), I’m opening comments for discussion and reactions to Professor Berg’s essay.
I don’t have much to say beyond:
(1) I emphatically agree with everything Berg says, and
(2) I am appalled to learn that Harvard and Dartmouth are promoting even more AI use across the curriculum.
There’s no doubt that AI use is “harming faculty-student trust,’” but… the solution here is not to just accept (let alone promote) its use all over campus. Honestly, I seriously contemplated quitting when 80%+ student work was obviously AI-generated. In-person assessments reduced the number enough that I no longer want to quit, but I really think that something important has been lost along the way.
If there’s anything of value in AI that is genuinely best learned at the university level (which I doubt, but remain open to), then I would expect particular courses in particular departments (probably compsci?) to be the best places to teach and learn it. I see no reason why it should be taught in every course in a single department, let alone across the university. That’s just a recipe for half-assed and half-baked education. (Just consider the state of ‘critical thinking’ education across the university, which everyone likes to claim but most of which is entirely informal and sometimes outright wrong.)
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