AI can beat university students, study suggests

In the study, fake exam answers and essays were submitted for first-, second- and third-year modules, without the knowledge of those marking them. The scores by the AI students beat those achieved by the real undergraduates in the first two years. But the humans scored better in the third-year exams - which "is consistent with the notion that current AI struggles with more abstract reasoning", the researchers said. And theirs was the largest and most robust blind study of its kind to date. Academics have raised concerns about the influence of AI in education, with Glasgow University recently reintroducing in-person exams for one course.