ACM India Webinar Series on Education on Friday, 26 July at 6:00 pm IST

ACM India Webinar Series on Education on Friday, 26 July at 6:00 pm IST

Simple Code-Writing Problems that GenAI Cannot Solve (At Present)

by Viraj Kumar

The next session of the Education webinar series is on a very interesting topic, which brings out the influence of GenAI on teaching and assessment of programming courses and how assessments can be done in a drastically different manner by partially specifying the problems to be solved to measure the deeper understanding of the students.

Register now for this session of ACM India Webinar Series on Education to be presented on Friday, 26 July 2024 at 6 pm IST by Viraj Kumar.

Registrations are limited, so please register early and secure your spot.

Session is open to all. All educators, academicians, industry professionals and students are welcome to attend the webinar. Feel free to forward this communication to those who would be interested.

Note: You can also stream this webinar on your mobile device, including smartphone and tablet.

Duration:

60 minutes (including audience Q&A)

Title: 

Simple Code-Writing Problems that GenAI Cannot Solve (At Present)

Abstract:

Programming courses have traditionally emphasized the ability of students to translate clearly specified tasks into code. Modern code-generation tools can often solve such problems accurately, and such tools are easily accessible to students. For instructors unwilling or unable to prohibit the use of such tools, we propose Probeable Problems: code-writing problems where tasks are deliberately specified poorly. To solve such problems, students must develop the ability to ask clarifying questions before writing the code (either manually, or with the assistance of AI tools). This talk will present findings from our upcoming paper on Probeable Problems (ICER'24: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15123), as well as our prior work on AI tools for suggesting clarifying questions (COMPUTE'23: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3627217.3627234).

Bio of the Presenter:

Viraj Kumar is a Visiting Professor at the Kotak-IISc AI-ML Centre, and an elected member of the ACM India Council. He heads ACM India's committee on Educational Initiatives, and his primary research area is Computer Science education. His recent work has focused on understanding the impact of Generative AI on teaching-learning practices for CS and other engineering disciplines. He co-authored IISc's policy on AI usage for teaching-learning and research, and he presently serves as a member to the Ministry of Education's Committee to study the impact of AI on Engineering Education. Previously, Prof Kumar served as a consultant to the Kasturirangan Committee to draft the National Education Policy (NEP 2020). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007).

Host:

Chitra Babu, Member of ACM India Learning Initiatives Committee