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This is the correct take. To contrast the Terance Tao piece from earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017972), AI research tools are increasingly useful if you're a competent researcher that can judge the output and detect BS. You can't, however, become a Terence Tao by asking AI to solve your homework.

So, in learning environments we might not have an option but to open the floodgates to AI use, but abandon most testing techniques that are not, more or less, pen and paper, in-person. Use AI as much as you want, but know that as a student you'll be answering tests armed only with your brain.

I do pity English teachers that have relied on essays to grade proficiency for hundreds of years. STEM fields has an easier way through this.

Comment · 11 months ago

The answer is you put the top mathematician in the world to do it, easy peasy.

“The argument used some p-adic algebraic number theory which was overkill for this problem. I then spent about half an hour converting the proof by hand into a more elementary proof, which I presented on the site.”

What’s the exchange rate for 30 minutes of Tao’s brain time in regular researcher’s time? 90 days? A year?

Comment · 11 months ago

Yes this is all true but it works well when you know how to deal with these issues. I suspect aging slides would be an odder for any automated system.