Homework
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Mollick: AI chatbots already write essays better than most humans
“Chatbots right now, like, if you want to see the future where it's better than human, it's actually in homework, where in most cases it kind of solves the issue, writes an essay better than most people.”
Mollick: Homework effectiveness fell from 80% to 20% due to cheating
“There's this great study at a repeating university that found that homework It improved, when you did the homework, it improved something like 80% of people's test scores in 2008. And by 2020, it only helped 20% of people. And that's not because homework stopp…”
Doshi: The Predominant Use Case for Language Models Continues to Be Homework
“There are a lot of things posted on Twitter about how people are using language models, but the predominant use case continues to be homework.”
Khan: School writing assignments will have to shift to in-class work
“And so my best guess of where, let's say, term papers or homework is going to have to evolve to is, especially in something like writing, you're going to have to do some in-class writing.”
Oakley: Doing homework once without deliberate repetition is a major mistake
“And I think that's one mistake we often make in in the U.S. At least, as far as doing homework. We just do it and throw it in, right? Instead of saying, oh, this is a key problem. If I've got this one, I should memorize, I should not memorize like just sort of…”