• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Can confirm; I teach statistics and allow take home exams. I don’t even really need guardrails on the math-- if you cheat via LLM, your answer is almost always hilariously wrong.

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      23 hours ago

      I’ve not used gpt for quite a while, but can’t you ask to python script the evaluation?

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        21 hours ago

        For simple math that could work, and as long as the question is close enough to an exact match with plenty of published examples to copy.

        A good rule of thumb is that the script it will come up with is about as likely to be correct as blindly taking the highest voted answer to the most similar question on Stack Overflow.

        If the question is simple and common, the odds are quite good. If the question is nuanced or rare, the odds of a correct result drop off aggressively.