My university provides no guidelines for dealing with LLM-generated assignments, downloading this work instead on to each of its thousands of instructors individually. It has also recently opened access to Co-Pilot for all ("but don't cheat"). Our Dean's Office is of no help - they don't have the capacity to deal with the explosion of cases and, like the rest of us, seem to have no direction from the top. Upper admin refuses any discussion of the environmental disaster that generative AI is.
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And this week the university's gearing up to celebrate our Nobel laureate - he gets his prize on Dec. 10 - who helped lay the groundwork for the current AI boom.
I'm seething.
Upper admin only seems interested in fundraising. But they have to realize they're seriously jeopardizing the foundations of the institution, right? In theory, we're supposed to speak truth to power. Instead, like all the other boneheads, we're spending massively on power's toys while diminishing our own relevance.
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University admin is effectively telling us to either invest our own time and energy (of which most of us have no more to give) or to close our eyes and pretend that nothing is wrong. But, doesn't this lead to everyone eventually choosing the second option? Even the most determined can only continue for so long with zero support. And then what do we have? The open secret that all you have to do is pay tuition and enrol in the required number of courses to be guaranteed a diploma?
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Or maybe we just go back to in-person, handwritten exams for everything, doing away with IMHO the creative and productive coursework many of us have spent our careers designing (exams don't meet all pedagogical goals and don't work for all students).
And maybe more disturbing is that all of this is happening - in Ontario, at least - under a government that would like nothing more than an excuse to defund higher education even further. And we're handing it to them on a silver platter. Ugh.
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@brian_gettler Our university had a task force to report on the matter: https://www.tarleton.edu/cid/the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-ai/
I despise everything about generative AI. But I find it difficult to know what the university administration can offer as solutions. There's no way to prove someone used a LLM (no matter how strongly we feel that they did). And students do get accused of using it when they haven't (so we have to be careful). Do you know of any universities that do offer support services along these lines?
@brian_gettler
Your university certainly doesn't want to piss off their Nobel Laureate! LOL
And hey, our university was approved to start a new program! But when used correctly AI and ML can be very ethical and useful. Just not this generative AI bullshit.
"Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning"
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