College professor had students grade ChatGPT-generated essays. All 63 essays had hallucinated errors

[Lucky Luciano]

7. In grad school (UCLA), I tutored math in Beverly Hills...

…and I noticed how kids were absolutely reliant on their calculators for the simplest calculations. I was totally stunned. One girl actually typed in something like 2+2 on autopilot and I made her stop and just tell me the answer and of course she did…but the autopilot thing was unsettling to me.

One boy seemed terrified of math without calculators. I asked him to do 35x9. No idea. I asked him 35x10…he said 350. Take away 30. 320 he says. Take away 5. He says 315. Done. I tell him don’t say you can’t do that again. He answered the next example like that quickly. Given that he now had mental acuity for that, we attacked the more conceptual critical thinking math problems without distractions or the context switching from calculators. Then I tell them the numbers don’t matter…only concepts do….of course in real life you have to produce accurate numbers, but the concepts should really come first. Mental math can help you sanity check your numbers. Handing in reports with wrong numbers at work will get you fired quickly.