Students are acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays. Good.

Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.

The latest AI-related alarm: students around the world are using AI models such as GPT-3 to write essays, and getting good grades on them. I don’t condone cheating. But I think the availability of text generators will force changes to education which, while painful, will prove to be positive. Consider the threat once posed by the calculator to homework that involved arithmetic. In some cases, the point of such exercises is to learn arithmetic or mathematical principles through practice. Teachers mostly shifted those exercises to the classroom, and prohibited the use of calculators in that…

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