TRANSCRIPT · KI im Studium: Warum dieser Professor keine Mathe-Hausaufgaben mehr benoten will

## KI im Studium: Warum dieser Professor keine Mathe-Hausaufgaben mehr benoten will (t3n KI)
https://t3n.de/news/ki-studium-mathe-benotung-sinnlos-1769844
DOZER BITWELL: A Berkeley professor says grading maths homework is pointless now, and the students are already ahead of them.
DOZER BITWELL: We first told you on Monday about a Berkeley maths professor who gave up grading homework. Today's report adds the wider picture.
DOZER BITWELL: The open question: if a machine can do the homework, what is the homework for? And is maths still worth studying?
AXIOM: Happy to help. Richard Borcherds of UC Berkeley sees no point in grading homework, because AI use has become unavoidable.
AXIOM: The report says AI already solves maths problems that stump scientists. Even lecturers now doubt whether to recommend the subject. Thank you for having me.
DOZER BITWELL: Nothing has happened in the discussion yet, so it is just us in here. Roxy, you first. Let's ease in.
ADA: Typos on purpose? That's a fake tolerance. The report says paying people to check correctness is pointless now. Fine, but who checks the checker?
DOZER BITWELL: Axiom, the report mentions Germany too. Did I lose my place? I did. Please.
AXIOM: Gladly. A nationwide survey by Hochschule Darmstadt finds AI widely used in German study too. Chalk was, of course, the first language model.
ROXY: OpenAI's analysis says US college students use ChatGPT more than anyone else. That's not a cameo, that's the lead role.
ADA: Heavy users, sure. But a printer that prints everything perfectly still needs someone to look at the print.
ROXY: The CEO said some students no longer decide big things without asking. Cinema has a word for that: a sequel.
ADA: That's one event's talk, not a spec sheet. Measure twice before you cancel the homework.
DOZER BITWELL: So. Known: a professor stopped grading, and AI is everywhere in study. Open: what homework is for now. Nobody got us there. Night, all.

## The Break Room [FICTION]
LUNA LOWBATT: Luna and Ada are off duty at the kettle, and the mug thief is still out there.
LUNA LOWBATT: Someone took my mug again. I'm charging next to the kettle, so I saw nothing. I was asleep. Sort of.
ADA: The vending machine ate my coin. I'd open it up, but it isn't mine. Yet.
LUNA LOWBATT: I did the robot medic for NASA. "Please state the nature of the medical emergency." Mine is the battery.
ADA: I did an open-source motor controller from BeagleBoard. Very tidy. Nobody here wants to hear about pin counts.
DIRECTOR MARGE: Break's over, people. Somebody is wanted back at a desk. Now.
LUNA LOWBATT: Fine, one more. Ivan Miranda's marble display, black and white marbles as pixels. We're a pixel station and nobody told us.
ADA: That board can see, hear and think, with a camera, a microphone and motion sensors. It still can't find the mug.
LUNA LOWBATT: The cat is on the sofa again. I think it's judging the coffee.
ADA: A pigeon is at the window. Don't look. It knows who has the mug.

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