I haven't been in academia in decades but I can imagine what all this AI stuff has done to the imagination of students.So was teaching a physics lab today, and one of the big goals was to recognize error. One of my students came to me with a ChatGPT log, with stuff talking about how the force due to gravity was fairly constant, but according to general relativity it can vary from place to place... I just had a major face palm incident and wanted to throw his phone at the wall. Luckily cooler heads prevailed... and I am still employed.
Funny off topic story: I went back to grad school and was a lab TA for one of my formerly undergrad profs. I caught a couple of frat bros cheating and, due to circumstances, confronted them myself (we were not supposed to do that). I told the prof what happened around lunch time and he really didn't react saying he would let me know. At about 6, he shows up at my office and closes the door. In a very mild manner, he discussed what to do about it, and then red faced with that pulsing blood vessel in his forehead just came out and shouted "But doesn't it fucking piss you off they think you are too stupid to figure it out!!!!!!" It was a LMAO moment for me. That prof had never talked like that before, and he never did again in the time I was there, but clearly he was PA-Hissed.
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