<story><title>Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-making-it-extremely-easy-for-students-to-cheat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>You may cheat all you want on your homework, but if calculus tests are like they were when I was in college, taking your exam with no notes or calculator, if you&amp;#x27;ve only cut and pasted from Wolfram Alpha all semester is going to lead you to getting an F in the course.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makmanalp</author><text>This - I think part of the issue is to stop homework from becoming busywork for grades. If everyone has the understanding that this is supposed to nail down and self-test understanding of material taught in class, then there&amp;#x27;s no reason students should &amp;quot;cheat&amp;quot;. To this end, I like the approach of mentioning repeatedly that homeworks are for the students&amp;#x27; own good, then give a test early on to make students quickly understand they&amp;#x27;ll do badly without practice, and then announce after the test that you&amp;#x27;ll drop the scores, but just DO YOUR DAMN HOMEWORK! :-)</text></comment>
<story><title>Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-making-it-extremely-easy-for-students-to-cheat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>You may cheat all you want on your homework, but if calculus tests are like they were when I was in college, taking your exam with no notes or calculator, if you&amp;#x27;ve only cut and pasted from Wolfram Alpha all semester is going to lead you to getting an F in the course.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>watbe</author><text>Agreed. This headline makes it sound like they&amp;#x27;re cheating in exams, but this is take-home assignments we&amp;#x27;re talking about. If wolfram alpha wasn&amp;#x27;t available, they&amp;#x27;d be asking friends or posting in maths forums. Wolfram alpha is simply more efficient at this job but all take-home assignments have this problem inherently.&lt;p&gt;Students just need to be aware that they should learn from solutions provided by wolfram alpha (there&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with that), otherwise they&amp;#x27;re going to flunk the closed-book exams anyway.</text></comment>