Our students have a type of task that is called “Mediation”. They get a German text and have to write a letter, an e-mail, a brochure entry etc. in English. It’s kind of a summary of a German text in English, but you have to also explain phenomena that are unique to your region. For instance, I would have to explain to the recipient of the letter what a “Kohlfahrt” is and why kale is not a sad vegetable but the pinnacle of human achievement, combined with potatoes and at least 2 kinds of meat and 2 kinds of sausage.
That’s something the AI can’t do at this point. Everything else is hard to spot, as I said above. It gets easier the longer you know the students though because they all have their special quirks when writing (always using the gerund, using a certain word very often etc.). That’s how I think I might be able to spot the AI.
Why should I make a machine write something nobody can read. If I learn a machine how to write, i’d better learn it to write readable… (something like doctor’s handwriting…)
Desktop calculators had barely been invented when I was at school, hand helds were certainly not available to mere mortals until well after then and the HP-35 wasn’t produced until I’d finished university. Small hand-held calculators were available by then, but their use was completely banned!
Slide rules and log tables for this little black duck - for us AI was when the blondes in the class dyed their hair! (I apologise profusely to all of the blondes reading this - those were different times.)
It’s surprising to look back and wonder how we did things without the internet to ask.
My YouTube statistics say that 0% of my viewers are female, even my female friend couldn’t save it with her one view. I told her she was statistically insignificant. I think the same might apply to this forum. And I am a hundred percent sure any of us have at some time told that exact same joke.
We got internet when I was 16, dial up, got dropped from every StarCraft match. Ugh. And there was no possibility at all to look at so many pictures of cute cats.
Microsoft has (or at least had) a font generator available. Little boxes you write each of the letters and symbols in. Called mine “chicken scratch” or something like that.
Some of my professors liked to say “you can use notes as long as they are hand written”, lol. They always saw me writing notes on my tablet with a stylus, so when i copy/pasted important passages, changed the font to chicken scratch, and shrunk it down to 6point to print, nobody batted an eye.
I think the same might apply to this forum. And I am a hundred percent sure any of us have at some time told that exact same joke. 
