Saturday, October 22, 2022

Intelligent AI?

Plagiarism is a dirty word when it comes to study and research but it may be harder to detect now that some students are using advanced language generators to write papers for them - and this can’t be detected by plagiarism software. The issue is that AI-generated text is not copied from somewhere else - and that’s what plagiarism software checks for. In the article “Sneaky Students Using AI to Write Their Papers For Them”, one student suggests they still do their homework on things they need to learn to pass, but they use AI to handle the things they don’t want to do, or they find “meaningless”. I guess it’s fair to say that we all learn in different ways, and that this might be a part of this. It also may just be a way to make “busywork” less time consuming so you don’t have to fill in the details - but rather are doing the equivalent of “dot points” to answer. Hopefully, though, the AI being used is better than the voice recognition software in my car - you would think it would be easy for it to make a call to someone it has called many times before, rather than suggesting something like “email” which really doesn’t have a phone number attached to it.

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