Did You Know I Invented The Hyper-visor and Hallucinations in Student Courseworks

Are We Becoming Lazy Learners?

I despair about the future of education in the face of GenAI. Like it or not, we are likely to move into a world of surface learning, and where some students can generate reports that look like PhD theses from the click of a button. It will be a sad world, and where we will not gather knowledge, but will become lazy in having to do the hard work of learning things. It will be a world where we take credit for someone else’s (the GenAI) work.

For this, we will have a new definition of the word “plagiarism”, and where all the methods we have used to detect copied work in the past will fail. But, when we do find it, it will be embarrassing for those who have faked their work, and for those who have allowed it to progress (eg teachers, editors and reviewers).

While, as a tool, GenAI can be great as an educational “co-pilot”, it often hallucinates when it doesn’t know the answer to something. For example, did you know that I invented the hyper-visor: