> AI use is prohibited for any use for any purpose in any exam situation.

Read literally this bans the use of hearing aids in an oral examination. All the devices on the market today use noise reduction based on neural networks or transformers. Isn't that AI? (The manufacturers' ad copy certainly insists so.) Presumably not what they intended but "AI" is not defined in the document.

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nerdsniper 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

ADA accommodations regularly change what can and cannot be used during an exam. This is not the “gotcha” you think it is.

Any lawyer making an argument along these lines probably used AI to pass the bar.

For example, a blind person could still get an accommodation to use a AI vision tool which reads the exam to them. Or the school could give them a human who reads the exam to them.

Either would meet the ADA accommodation requirements, and neither would actually be blocked by UC Berkeley’s new “no AI” rule because the ADA supersedes this “no AI” rule.

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a2ff6eeb0 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would you consider an amplifier AI?

	▲	nerdsniper 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		These days there’s often a tiny neural net inside good hearing aids which decides which frequencies to amplify by how much. That way they can dynamically detect and remove background noise and isolate actual speech. Among many other features.