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California math professor at Berkeley stops grading homework due to AI
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Berkeley Professor Stops Grading Homework Over AI—How Teachers Are Adapting
Richard Borcherds, a mathematics professor at UC Berkeley who won the Fields Medal in 1998, now gives students credit for completing their homework on time, rather than assessing whether their answers are correct.
Borcherds admitted: “There is no easy way to tell the difference between human and AI-generated work.
Borcherds believes there’s no point in marking papers that have been generated with AI, telling Newsweek in an email Monday: "AI can now solve many undergraduate mathematics problems, often better than the students themselves.
Borcherds told Newsweek students' use of AI for homework is now widespread.
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