AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study

165 points by Edymilson 22 hours ago|10 comments

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julienchastang 22 hours ago

This article is about the Economist's summary of a journal article so we have a (AI?) summary of a summary. Not very helpful. Here are a couple of better references:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

https://archive.is/w1eng

Also note the findings are more nuanced than may appear on the surface.

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dang 20 hours ago

Ok, we'll merge the current thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357530, which is one hop closer to the source. I'll put the link to the paper in the toptext there as well.

Thanks!

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demibabs 21 hours ago

Appreciate your summary of this summary of the economist’s summary of the paper.

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buredoranna 20 hours ago

I'm confused, could you summarize that for me?

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chaps 20 hours ago

Summarized happened.

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ben_w 20 hours ago

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/summary

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phlakaton 20 hours ago

All this plus a malware popup too, at least when I looked.

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Incipient 2 hours ago

I don't think anyone can argue using AI to do work (rather than say using it to ask you questions or something) makes you better at the details of whatever it is that it's helping you do - maths, history, code, etc.

I think the only question is, does it matter?. Do we need to know that detail any more?

Eg AI absolutely knows fastapi middleware better than me, but I do understand what it does and why. Did I need to actually know that level of detail? I genuinely don't know the answer to that...

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Boss0565 21 hours ago

We cannot be boosting AI slop like this

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2_foos_in_a_bar 19 hours ago

HN needs some kind of functionality to aggressively filter out slop posts and de-activate the accounts that are boosting them. As of late, a large volume of both news-related and Show-HN posts have been blatant AI trash that contributes nothing to the community.