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by bregma 62 days ago
The part you're missing is that the evaluator already knows the answer. They're not looking that you can arrive at the correct answer, but that you know how to arrive at the correct answer. If "arriving at the correct answer" just means retrieving data from a Baysian database using a Markov chain you have only demonstrated you provide no value in the chain and should indeed get a mark of zero or get recycled.
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>The part you're missing is that the evaluator already knows the answer. They're not looking that you can arrive at the correct answer, but that you know how to arrive at the correct answer.

The university evaluator is not the one paying you, the one paying you is your boss or customer. It doesn't matter how highly your university professor thinks of you, if you can't solve difficult problems as fast because your university never taught you to solve hard problems with AI, you're going to be at a competitive disadvantage in the workforce when you graduate.