{"id":60078,"date":"2017-07-17T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=60078"},"modified":"2017-07-23T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T17:04:26","slug":"hmmm-for-math-profsteachers-your-ss-may-be-using-an-ai-based-tool-to-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/07\/17\/hmmm-for-math-profsteachers-your-ss-may-be-using-an-ai-based-tool-to-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmmm&#8230;[for math profs\/teachers] Your Ss may be using an AI-based tool to cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ai-is-making-it-extremely-easy-for-students-to-cheat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI is making it extremely easy for students to cheat<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wired.com by Pippa Biddle<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For years, students have turned to CliffsNotes for speedy reads of books, SparkNotes to whip up talking points for class discussions, and Wikipedia to pad their papers with historical tidbits. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But today\u2019s students have smarter tools at their disposal\u2014namely, Wolfram|Alpha, a program that uses artificial intelligence to perfectly and untraceably solve equations.<\/span> <\/strong>Wolfram|Alpha uses natural language processing technology, part of the AI family, to provide students with an academic shortcut that is faster than a tutor, more reliable than copying off of friends, and much easier than figuring out a solution yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Use of Wolfram|Alpha is difficult to trace, and in the hands of ambitious students, its perfect solutions are having unexpected consequences.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is making it extremely easy for students to cheat &#8212; from wired.com by Pippa Biddle Excerpt (emphasis DSC): For years, students have turned to CliffsNotes for speedy reads of books, SparkNotes to whip up talking points for class discussions, and Wikipedia to pad their papers with historical tidbits. But today\u2019s students have smarter tools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,322,356,286,32,210,71,3,391,482,124,46,163,821,66,454,195,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-adjunct-faculty","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-k-12-related","category-mathematics","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-student-related","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60159,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60078\/revisions\/60159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}