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As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses

The Register · Thomas Claburn · last updated

Students are increasingly turning to AI to help them with coursework, leaving academics scrambling to adjust their teaching practices or debating how to ban it altogether.

But one professor likens AI to the arrival of the calculator in the classroom, and thinks the trick is to focus on teaching students how to reason through different ways to solve problems, and show them where AI may lead them astray.

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