solved<\/a> one of mathematics\u2019 most difficult unsolved problems, the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.<\/p>\n\u201cIf AI continues to improve at present rate, then, in a few years, there\u2019ll be nothing human mathematicians can do that AI can\u2019t do better,\u201d Borcherds said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Borcherds said he currently grades on completion if a student hands in their homework. He admitted that it is \u201cnot a very good system,\u201d but at the moment, he has no alternative.<\/p>\n
Borcherds stated he no longer knows whether to encourage students to go into the math department, as it seemed five years ago that being a mathematician was one of the safest careers from the AI boom.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no idea what to advise. I even asked ChatGPT this exact question, and even ChatGPT said it didn’t have any idea what was going to happen,\u201d Borcherds said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He described a plentiful amount of \u201cinertia\u201d in the academic system and said he wouldn\u2019t be surprised if things stayed the same in the math department for a couple years despite AI developments.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He drew a comparison to physical paper journals, which publish even though they have been \u201cutterly pointless\u201d for two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been plenty of technical breakthroughs in the past \u2014 hand weaving was put out of business by looms, and horses were put out of business by motor cars, and so on,\u201d Borcherds said. \u201cThis is the first time anything like this has happened in mathematics, though.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate asks that faculty include a statement about course expectations including the use of AI tools for coursework in course syllabi, according to an email from Anne Marie Richard,\u00a0assistant vice provost for undergraduate education and chief academic technology officer.\u00a0However, she said the direct policies on AI use can vary dramatically with course level and focus area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Campus has tried several AI detection tools, including Turnitin and Rumi, but have determined that these tools aren\u2019t adequate enough to be standardized on campus.<\/p>\n
AI policy for classes is up to the discretion of faculty, but there is a growing database of sample AI use statements available in the AI Hub, the campus directory for AI tools, training and policies, for faculty to use in their syllabi, according to Richard.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students\u2019 homework.\u00a0 After seeing how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3206,2007,193112,195368,2269,23230,194125,143,145,144,3408,194129,149],"class_list":["post-505495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-academic-senate","tag-ai","tag-ai-hub","tag-anne-marie-richard","tag-chatgpt","tag-fields-medal","tag-navier-stokes","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-openai","tag-richard-borcherds","tag-uc-berkeley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}