Momma says AI is THA DEVUL
As soon as I read about the shoe cell modem, I thought Eudaemons. It’s rad Ars called that out too!
Largely a myth though, since it was never used beyond practice. People tell stories about it being used in casinos and the tale has become larger than life
I think people conflate it with the MIT blackjack team
Are we going to completely ignore the absolute insanity of arresting someone for cheating on an exam.
Turkish middle school, high school, and university exams are very serious.
Basically everyone takes the same set of long exams (with a few additions you can add to your standard exam sets, for specialized schools) and when the results come out, you are compared to all other students in the nation.
Like, think global leaderboards.
The best universities will outright reject you if your ranking isn’t high enough.
It’s very intense and cut-throat; so much so that - when I was a young’un growing up in Turkey - I just opted to try my hand at the SATs instead. Ended up going to school abroad.
The SATs were so easy, compared to the exam prep we did in our Turkish classes, it almost felt like a joke. Though, college tuition costs definitely made sure I wasn’t the one with the last laugh.
Honestly this just makes me think that schools and universities should be shuffling their staff and teachers to keep one or the other school from becoming “the good one” that becomes a magnet for nepo babies and tomorrow’s burnout cases.
That level of direct competition is just gonna lead to people who are NOT able to work cooperatively or really trust anyone.
Plus breaking up the nepo clubs is important for keeping the social ladder at a reasonable angle to climb, college should be everyone’s chance to make important connections, not just for the Ivy League alums’ kids while everyone else gets told it’s about getting the piece of paper and having lots of free pizza while you’re doing it.
Video of it working:
I’m more interested to know how they got caught. It sounds like they weren’t confident enough to keep their cool.
Wild. Yeah, he was probably squirming more that normal, or the teacher heard the AI voice.
I wonder if the camera needed to be triggered to take the photo. So the student would be leaning over the exam unnaturally, and pressing a button somewhere to capture the photo.
Pretty clever contraption though.
Is there a link to the video that doesn’t give the daily mail a click?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Saturday, Turkish police arrested and detained a university student who is accused of developing an elaborate scheme to use AI and hidden devices to help him cheat on an exam, reports Reuters and The Daily Mail.
According to police reports, the student used a camera disguised as a shirt button, connected to AI software via a “router” (possibly a mistranslation of a cellular modem) hidden in the sole of their shoe.
The system worked by scanning the exam questions using the button camera, which then relayed the information to an unnamed AI model.
The police discovered a mobile phone that could allegedly relay spoken sounds to the other person, allowing for two-way communication.
The Eudaemons were a group of physics graduate students from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who developed a wearable computer device designed to predict the outcome of roulette spins in casinos.
While the Eudaemons’ plan didn’t involve a university exam, it shows that the urge to call upon remote computational powers greater than oneself is apparently timeless.
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