Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick

@emollick

7 Tweets 2 reads Apr 08, 2023
Look, if everyone is worried about students cheating on essays for AI, instructors can just cheat right back.
I asked OpenAI to give me an essay question & make a rubric for grading. I had GPT-3 actually write the essay.
I then had the OpenAI grade the essay & give comments. โœ…
Basically, Real Genius, a movie from 1985 starring Val Kilmer, got the future right.
It then automated both the student complaint & the instructor response to the complaint.
And then it will write the teaching evaluation the student gives to the instructor. Disturbingly realistic. (Come on, the feedback could not be any more timely!)
I donโ€™t actually think anyone should be grading their essays via AI, of course. And I think the fact that AI seems authoritative even when it isnโ€™t is a big issue.
But I do think the current state of free AI systems can extend our creativity right now. oneusefulthing.substack.com
Ummmโ€ฆ it also creates syllabi.
(It gets the publisher wrong for a few of the readings, and this is not a cutting-edge or particularly up-to-date entrepreneurship class, but it also isnโ€™t obviously wrong. It also goes on for a lot longer, this is just a small piece)
I tried a whole bunch of other tasks (writing lectures! Telling me exactly what to write on the board during those lectures! Creating cheesy in-class exercises!) and wrote about what all this means for the profession. oneusefulthing.substack.com

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