Berkeley Law prohibits AI use in classes (by default)

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retrac•about 1 hour ago

> AI use is prohibited for any use for any purpose in any exam situation.

Read literally this bans the use of hearing aids in an oral examination. All the devices on the market today use noise reduction based on neural networks or transformers. Isn't that AI? (The manufacturers' ad copy certainly insists so.) Presumably not what they intended but "AI" is not defined in the document.

nerdsniper•about 1 hour ago

ADA accommodations regularly change what can and cannot be used during an exam. This is not the “gotcha” you think it is.

Any lawyer making an argument along these lines probably used AI to pass the bar.

For example, a blind person could still get an accommodation to use a AI vision tool which reads the exam to them. Or the school could give them a human who reads the exam to them.

Either would meet the ADA accommodation requirements, and neither would actually be blocked by UC Berkeley’s new “no AI” rule because the ADA supersedes this “no AI” rule.

a2ff6eeb0•about 1 hour ago

Why would you consider an amplifier AI?

nerdsniper•about 1 hour ago

These days there’s often a tiny neural net inside good hearing aids which decides which frequencies to amplify by how much.

That way they can dynamically detect and remove background noise and isolate actual speech. Among many other features.

greensoap•about 1 hour ago

University of Chicago's policy is more interesting: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-strategy-statement

thatjoeoverthr•about 1 hour ago

You have to be jacked to use the jackhammer.

Berkeley Law prohibits AI use in classes (by default)

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