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AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study
- julienchastang 3mo agoThis article is about the Economist's summary of a journal article so we have a (AI?) summary of a summary. Not very helpful. Here are a couple of better references: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618 https://archive.is/w1eng https://archive.is/w1eng Also note the findings are more nuanced than may appear on the surface.
- demibabs 3mo agoAppreciate your summary of this summary of the economist’s summary of the paper.
- buredoranna 3mo agoI'm confused, could you summarize that for me?
- phlakaton 3mo agoAll this plus a malware popup too, at least when I looked.
- dang 3mo agoOk, we'll merge the current thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357530, which is one hop closer to the source. I'll put the link to the paper in the toptext there as well. Thanks!
- Boss0565 3mo agoWe cannot be boosting AI slop like this
- 2_foos_in_a_bar 3mo agoHN needs some kind of functionality to aggressively filter out slop posts and de-activate the accounts that are boosting them. As of late, a large volume of both news-related and Show-HN posts have been blatant AI trash that contributes nothing to the community.
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- Incipient 3mo agoI don't think anyone can argue using AI to do work (rather than say using it to ask you questions or something) makes you better at the details of whatever it is that it's helping you do - maths, history, code, etc. I think the only question is, does it matter?. Do we need to know that detail any more? Eg AI absolutely knows fastapi middleware better than me, but I do understand what it does and why. Did I need to actually know that level of detail? I genuinely don't know the answer to that...
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- wseqyrku 3mo ago> AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped This didn't need a study, it's 2+2