{"id":65929,"date":"2026-10-27T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65929"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:45:56","slug":"the-problem-with-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65929","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, The New York Post<\/a> posted an article about the homework policy of a University of California Berkley professor.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

A UC Berkeley professor<\/a> has stopped grading students\u2019 homework for correctness after noticing artificial intelligence tools<\/a> were helping them rack up top marks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Borcherds, a renowned mathematician who received the prestigious Fields Medal in 1998, said widespread student use of AI has undermined the value of traditional homework grading.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cStudent use of AI for homework is now widespread,\u201d Borcherds told The California Post. \u201cGrading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework instead of doing it themselves, and penalizes students for honesty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Borcherds now awards credit based primarily on whether students complete their assignments rather than whether their answers are correct, acknowledging that he does not know of a better solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The professor said it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish work produced by artificial intelligence from work written by students themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no easy way to tell the difference between human and AI generated work,\u201d he told The California Post. \u201cOccasionally one could tell it is AI because AI made a few characteristic errors, but AI has now improved so much that it rarely makes obvious mistakes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Borcherds\u2019 concerns about the future of mathematics were also highlighted in an interview with the Daily Californian, UC Berkeley\u2019s student newspaper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf AI continues to improve at present rate, then, in a few years, there\u2019ll be nothing human mathematicians can do that AI can\u2019t do better,\u201d Borcherds told the paper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The professor needs to look at the tactic employed by another college professor to find the students who used IA (article here<\/a>). That professor set up software that would insert the word “Madagascar” somewhere in the text that was copied. I am sure there would be an unusual set of numbers that could be inserted the same way to expose the use of AI.<\/p>\n

All of us are going to be impacted in some way by AI. The goal is to use it for good and to make things simpler for all of us. I am not sure we are going to be able to meet that goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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