人工智能的应用让加州大学伯克利分校的一位数学教授认为批改作业“毫无意义”。

Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students’ homework.
加州大学伯克利分校教授、菲尔兹奖获得者理查德·博切尔兹不再给学生批改作业。 

After seeing how many of his students used AI to consistently receive top scores, he felt there was “no point” in paying readers to grade for correctness in homework, as AI use is now unavoidable. 
在看到他的许多学生利用人工智能持续获得高分后，他觉得花钱请人批改作业的正确性“毫无意义”，因为人工智能的使用现在已经不可避免。

Borcherds revealed this in a sit-down interview Tuesday, following OpenAI’s announcement that AI agents apparently one of mathematics’ most difficult unsolved problems, the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
博彻兹在周二的一次专访中透露了这一点。此前，OpenAI 宣布人工智能代理显然已经解决了数学中最难的未解难题之一——纳维-斯托克斯方程的存在性和光滑性问题。

“If AI continues to improve at present rate, then, in a few years, there’ll be nothing human mathematicians can do that AI can’t do better,” Borcherds said.
博彻兹说：“如果人工智能继续以目前的速度进步，那么几年后，人类数学家能做的任何事情，人工智能都能做得更好。” 

Borcherds said he currently grades on completion if a student hands in their homework. He admitted that it is “not a very good system,” but at the moment, he has no alternative.
博彻兹表示，目前他采用的是作业完成情况评分制，前提是学生交了作业。他承认这“不是一个很好的制度”，但目前他别无选择。

Borcherds stated he no longer knows whether to encourage students to go into the math department, as it seemed five years ago that being a mathematician was one of the safest careers from the AI boom.
博彻兹表示，他现在不知道是否应该鼓励学生进入数学系，因为五年前，数学家似乎是人工智能热潮中最安全的职业之一。

“I have no idea what to advise. I even asked ChatGPT this exact question, and even ChatGPT said it didn’t have any idea what was going to happen,” Borcherds said. 
“我不知道该给出什么建议。我甚至问过 ChatGPT 这个问题，但 ChatGPT 也表示他们不知道会发生什么，”博彻兹说道。

He described a plentiful amount of “inertia” in the academic system and said he wouldn’t be surprised if things stayed the same in the math department for a couple years despite AI developments. 
他描述了学术体系中大量的“惯性”，并表示尽管人工智能取得了发展，但如果数学系在未来几年内保持不变，他也不会感到惊讶。

He drew a comparison to physical paper journals, which publish even though they have been “utterly pointless” for two decades. 
他将此与纸质期刊进行了比较，这些期刊即使“毫无意义”地出版了二十年，仍然继续发行。

“There have been plenty of technical breakthroughs in the past — hand weaving was put out of business by looms, and horses were put out of business by motor cars, and so on,” Borcherds said. “This is the first time anything like this has happened in mathematics, though.”
博彻兹说：“过去有很多技术突破——织布机取代了手工织布，汽车取代了马匹，等等。但这是数学领域第一次出现这样的情况。”

The Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate asks that faculty include a statement about course expectations including the use of AI tools for coursework in course syllabi, according to an email from Anne Marie Richard, assistant vice provost for undergraduate education and chief academic technology officer. However, she said the direct policies on AI use can vary dramatically with course level and focus area. 
据本科教育助理副教务长兼首席学术技术官安妮·玛丽·理查德（Anne Marie Richard）的邮件显示，加州大学伯克利分校学术评议会要求教师在课程大纲中加入关于课程预期（包括人工智能工具在课程作业中的使用）明。然而，她也指出，关于人工智能使用的具体政策可能因课程级别和研究领域而异。

Campus has tried several AI detection tools, including Turnitin and Rumi, but have determined that these tools aren’t adequate enough to be standardized on campus.
校园已经尝试过几种人工智能检测工具，包括 Turnitin 和 Rumi，但最终认为这些工具还不够完善，无法在校园内标准化。

AI policy for classes is up to the discretion of faculty, but there is a growing database of sample AI use statements available in the AI Hub, the campus directory for AI tools, training and policies, for faculty to use in their syllabi, according to Richard. 
理查德表示，课程中的人工智能政策由教师自行决定，但人工智能中心（校园人工智能工具、培训和政策目录）中有一个不断增长的人工智能使用声明示例数据库，供教师在课程大纲中使用。