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by WalterBright 873 days ago
At Caltech, exams were typically open book, open note. The time limit on the test, however, prevented attempts to learn the material in the time allotted. Calculators were also allowed (though were useless on Caltech exams, as course material didn't care about your arithmetic skillz).

I suspect the way to deal with ChatGPT is to allow it. Expect the interviewee to use ChatGPT as a tool. Try out the interview questions beforehand with ChatGPT. Ask questions that ChatGPT won't be good and answering, like how a calculator is useless on a physics exam.
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wakawaka28 873 days ago
Using ChatGPT as a tool makes as much sense as allowing a human assistant to take the exam with you.

In an open-book test, you have to know what you're looking for and roughly where to find it in the book. That implies some knowledge. With ChatGPT you could type the question verbatim and get a potentially right answer, without even understanding the answer at all. It is therefore unacceptable for use on any exam.

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xarope 873 days ago
As a former tertiary educator (for a brief moment, before I decided academia wasn't my thing), that's how open book exams are set; the assumption is you have knowledge of the subject, and the books are there for you to verify and quote examples of/from.

NOT to browse through looking for a solution from step 0.

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