A Berkeley working paper by Igor Chirikov found that after ChatGPT was released, the share of A grades in AI exposed courses rose by 13 percentage points. The increase was larger where homework carried greater weight.
Read that second sentence again. The inflation is worst exactly where the take home work counts most.
Yesterday Andreessen Horowitz launched a school with no homework at all, and an admissions process that asks for a portfolio instead of an essay.
So here is today's question, and it takes one sentence to answer.
What is the one assignment in your course you would be least surprised to see a model produce?
Not the one you are proudest of. The one that worries you. Name it and I will tell you the smallest change that puts the evidence back in it.
