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sentences that state something as happening or true
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1 of 25 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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A renowned UC Berkeley mathematician who stopped grading homework for correctness because of rampant AI use has revealed he is now using in-person exams with no electronic devices allowed to judge how well his students are doing.
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students → stop → devices
Richard Borcherds, who won the prestigious Fields Medal in 1998, said he has no better solution as artificial intelligence makes it nearly impossible to tell class submissions from a chatbot’s.
“I now base grades mainly on in-person exams with no electronic devices allowed,” Borcherds told The California Post.
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Borcherds → win → Post
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Sign → sign → California
“Online exams are now a waste of time as several students just use AI to answer the questions.
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students → use → questions
I cannot tell which students are using AI, but I notice the average score increases a lot in online exams.”
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score → tell → exams
Research backs up what the professor has seen in his own classroom.
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professor → back → classroom
A 2024 study published in the journal Discover Education by Alexander Stanoyevitch analyzed years of exam scores from an introductory statistics course he teaches every semester, before and after ChatGPT arrived.
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ChatGPT → publish → course
It found that scores rose significantly when exams of similar difficulty moved from in-person to online.
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exams → find → online
A separate study published in the journal Teaching of Psychology compared two sections of an undergraduate personality psychology course.
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study → publish → course
In one, 153 students took the final exam in person.
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students → take → person
In the other, 160 students took it online without monitoring.
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students → take → it
The online group scored significantly higher.
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group → score → ?
Whether the exam was online or in person predicted students’ final scores better than how they had done earlier in the course.
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they → predict → course
The researchers concluded that unmonitored online exams inflate scores and may not reflect students’ true abilities.
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exams → conclude → abilities
Borcherds said telling human work from AI-generated work has become increasingly difficult.
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telling → say → work
AI used to give itself away with a few characteristic errors, he said, but the technology has improved so much that such mistakes are now rare.
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mistakes → use → errors
That’s why he stopped grading homework on whether the answers are right.
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answers → ’ → homework
Students now get credit mainly for completing their assignments.
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Students → get → assignments
“Grading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework instead of doing it themselves, and penalizes students for honesty.
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them → grade → honesty
And paying [readers/graders] to grade AI generated answers is a waste of time and money,” Borcherds said.
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Borcherds → pay → time
UC Berkeley requires instructors to spell out their AI rules in course syllabi.
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Berkeley → require → syllabi
The university looked into AI-detection software, including Turnitin and Rumi, but found the tools weren’t reliable enough to adopt campus-wide, the Daily Californian reported.
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Californian → look → Turnitin
That leaves individual professors to set their own policies.
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That → leave → policies
Borcherds, however, remains philosophical about the bigger picture.
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Borcherds → remain → picture
“If the worst effect of AI on society is that it is harder to assess homework then I will be very relieved,” he said.
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he → assess → homework
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