Is the assessment system of undergraduate mathematics education no longer effective?

margalabargala 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Undergraduate? No. We've had calculators able to solve undergraduate problems for decades. AI doesn't change the need to understand how calculus works any more than calculators did. The foundations remain valuable.

Graduate? Yes.

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whatever120 3 hours ago | parent [-]

How should graduate school be changed then? Specifically for mathematics

	▲	dyauspitr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		90% of the final grade are in room examinations with proctors, maybe two sets of exams of midterms and finals that the vast majority of the final grade comes from. This is already how most of East and South Asia does it anyways and it’s probably the best. For publications and theses, as long as the final results hold and can be replicated and validated, I don’t see why we shouldn’t allow the wholesale use of LLMs

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dyauspitr 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t think it’s just mathematics. We don’t hear enough about this, but if I think back to my undergraduate years, which were less than 10 years ago, every homework assignment and every take-home exam I had would be trivial for LLMs to solve at this point I wonder what is actually happening on the ground.