Is AI Making College Students Dumber? Ronny Chieng Investigates The Daily Show

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6. I've always taken the opposite approach -- avoid essay questions. Short questions with short answers --

they're right or they're wrong.

Of course the "purest" chemistry questions are ones where the questions and answers both involve drawing chemical structures -- "A is converted to B by acid catalysis. Suggest a detailed mechanism." How do you ask a chatbot to help then ? I guess they'll soon have a way -- if they don't already -- to point their phone cameras at the diagram and do an online search, but I wouldn't count on that being all that helpful, based on what I've seen of attempted searches for graphics.

Horrifying, but utterly expected anecdote, about students who cheated and got caught. Now let's hear the ones about the students who didn't get caught -- they're the ones really driving it.