College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Can we just go back to calling this shit Algorithms and stop pretending its actually Artificial Intelligence?

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      1 year ago

      Maybe machine learning models technically fit the definition of “algorithm” but it suits them very poorly. An algorithm is traditionally a set of instructions written by someone, with connotations of being high level, fully understood conceptually, akin to a mathematical formula.

      A machine learning model is a soup of numbers that maybe does something approximately like what the people training it wanted it to do, using arbitrary logic nobody can expect to follow. “Algorithm” is not a great word to describe that.

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      1 year ago

      Please let’s not defame Djikstra and other Algorithms like this. Just call them “corporate crap”, like what they are.