Students are relying on AI so heavily that universities are being forced to fundamentally rethink how they grade their work.
England’s higher education regulator, the Office for Students, is warning universities that they may need to replace traditional take-home essays and open-book exams with supervised assessments that prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to do their work.
AI-detection tools are too unreliable to consistently determine whether students have used the technology, the OfS said in a report published Wednesday.
I can also confirm that functionality in Microsoft products is (I think deliberately) being dumbed down and made counterintuitive in order to force people to use CoPilot. This has been especially problematic with Sharepoint.
It’s very likely deliberate. Even the operating system. I booted an old computer up with W7 and I was surprised how much easier it is to use.
One class I had, they do a VM style “sim” and you’re asked to open the terminal. Okay I press win+r to type in cmd. Incorrect! Use the search bar and type in terminal… I was pissed off