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pavelboyko | 3 years ago

This reminds me of a story that an old professor of theoretical physics told me. In the early nineties, he left the former Soviet Union for the United States to teach physics at one of the top universities. There he encountered the fact that American students were fantastically good at solving all his standard problems for integrals. It quickly became clear that the students were using the then-new program for symbolic calculations, Mathematica. As a result, our professor also mastered Mathematica and spent half the night finding such integrals that it still could not calculate for assignments.

I use Copilot every day and I can assure you it makes a lot of mistakes. I think that, at least in the short term, CS teachers will still find assignments where it makes mistakes.

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