Brown University economics final scores plummeted after professor shifted format in-person to stop LLM cheating
Eighteen students dropped the class following the exam policy change


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KD Kosta Derpanis (sabbatical in Zurich)@CSProfKGD
ML/vision profs: how have you structured your assessments now that LLM use is pervasive? What’s working, what isn’t, and what surprised you? Asking for a friend 😉 https://twitter.com/aakashgupta/status/2075092082965074378
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SB scott belsky@scottbelsky
also a sign of how stale traditional education is. I wonder how these assessments that prohibit the use of modern methods of remembering and querying things are actually correlated with the intelligence or initiative that makes someone successful?…
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TN Timothy Nguyen@IAmTimNguyen
Back when I was an undergrad at Caltech, all assignments and exams (including the final) were take-home, timed, and self-administered. The Caltech honor code was real and lived. Looking at the impact of its alumni, that trust clearly paid off. I'm not sure if that model is still…
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DT Derek Thompson@DKThomp
I think here’s an interesting tension between many academics’ insistence that “AI can’t think” and the discovery that AI has demolished traditional methods for evaluating learning and thinking. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2075031014628311236
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AC Alex Cohen@anothercohen
I'd bet if most companies ran this same exercise with their employees, they'd want to fire half of them that simply can't function without AI anymore
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AN Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos@ml_angelopoulos
Imagine getting a literal 0% on the exam after using Fable to cheat your way to 100%. 🤦♂️ https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2075031014628311236
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