One wonders how much push-back businesses might get, if they said "don't bother putting any post-2020 college on your resume, we've switched to proctored pencil-and-paper tests of whether you know more than how to prompt an AI".
The thing is thought that business seems quite happy with the AI prompting. Business has never paid a premium for slop vs knowledge when it is good enough.
It's all economics at the end of the day. If you see yourself as having to compete with the entirety of china, india, and wherever else in your classroom so that you can get the 500K starting salary + all benefits vs crushing debt, 45K starting, no health insurance, no chance of home ownership etc, then obviously cheating will be prevalent. Fix the economics of higher-ed and careers, and the academic spirit will return.
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One wonders how much push-back businesses might get, if they said "don't bother putting any post-2020 college on your resume, we've switched to proctored pencil-and-paper tests of whether you know more than how to prompt an AI".
The thing is thought that business seems quite happy with the AI prompting. Business has never paid a premium for slop vs knowledge when it is good enough.
So maybe the slop-is-good-enough AI-prompting jobs all go to Elbonian teenagers?
Perhaps American college enrollment in on the brink of a 10X implosion.
https://archive.is/91DZ5
It's all economics at the end of the day. If you see yourself as having to compete with the entirety of china, india, and wherever else in your classroom so that you can get the 500K starting salary + all benefits vs crushing debt, 45K starting, no health insurance, no chance of home ownership etc, then obviously cheating will be prevalent. Fix the economics of higher-ed and careers, and the academic spirit will return.
Yes...but sadly a cure for cancer seems far more likely. Any real fix would run against far too many entrenched interests.