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Yancey Ward's avatar

"The ten-minute oral interview will surface the student’s level of understanding."

Within a very short time these interviews will have to be in a room face to face to be sure you are talking to the student.

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Robert M.'s avatar

Hopefully holographic projection will not be perfected so the professor is fooled into thinking he is face to face with the student.

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Cinna the Poet's avatar

Thanks very much for sharing that idea from Evans. I'll definitely use it in future semesters.

That said, at least in my field (philosophy) it does matter a lot whether a student came up with the idea for their paper, vs if they had that idea fed to them by Chat GPT and then came to an understanding of it. It's a very different, and harder, display of logical skills to come up with your own argument.

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konshtok's avatar

Alice Evans reinvents the oral exam but for trad reasons insists on a superfluous written exam also

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Dec 1, 2024
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"Might individualized AI-enabled personal autarky have the revolutionary potential to return us to a Jeffersonian past in when 4 out 5 Americans were self employed?"

Can you explain?

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stu's avatar

I'm sure there's a few things where that might be true but it's a whole lot easier for me to think of products and services where that isn't true.

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"Federal, state, and local bureaucracies really ought be easily and simply replaced by AI because their employees are by design performing well-defined functions according to specific instructions, are wholly fungible and are trained to task."

No doubt AI will do better but I'd argue we've mostly done this already via Google and websites we can search as well as completing many account tasks online. The people in the bureaucracies are creating and managing the rules in addition to handling unique cases, which are many.

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1 I didn't even touch on employees only being about 10% of federal spending.

2 It's funny the agency I thought of where your first comment might apply was Social Security. I don't know how good of a candidate it would be it's a tiny part of part the federal workforce. Defense of upwards of 700,000. Next is the VA over 400,000 and Homeland 200,000. I'm even less sure if the opportunities to use AI to reduce the workforce in those.

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I agree that while workforce reductions from AI aren't going to solve any debt issues, AI may result in valuable savings and improvements.

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