It's not that the oral format should be dismissed, just that the idea of your exam being speaking to a machine to be judged on the merit of your time in a course is dystopian. Talking to another human is fine.
Very different. A scantron machine is deterministic and non-chaotic.
In addition to being non-deterministic LLMs can product vastly different output from very slightly different input.
That’s ignoring how vulnerable LLMs are to prompt injection, and if this becomes common enough that exams aren’t thoroughly vetted by humans, I expect prompt attacks to become common.
Also if this is about avoiding in person exams, what prevents students from just letting their AI talk to test AI.
makeitdouble|1 month ago
Have exams ever been about humanity and the optics of it ?
sarchertech|1 month ago
In addition to being non-deterministic LLMs can product vastly different output from very slightly different input.
That’s ignoring how vulnerable LLMs are to prompt injection, and if this becomes common enough that exams aren’t thoroughly vetted by humans, I expect prompt attacks to become common.
Also if this is about avoiding in person exams, what prevents students from just letting their AI talk to test AI.