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An AI could generate relevant questions, follow-up questions during the oral, and evaluate the student at the end. The teacher could then review the whole conversarion at a glance and check/adjust the AI evaluation, which shouldn't take more time than grading an exam and be equally scalable.

I've actually tested this with a VR app (with support for mobile also), and it actually works quite well.

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So as a student, I'm forced to converse with an ai and take it seriously, when in reality I reject them all? The whole original post is an example of this being terrible and not a solution for anything.

It's bad enough that these things don't do a good job, don't basically function for the task, but what's as bad or worse is being forced to pretend you buy into it all like having to pretend to believe in some religion just to not get killed by everyone else.

I'm not a student and so far I have been free to judge all these ais as bad on a variety of fronts, and not use them (directly anyway, of course they are used behind the scenes in ways that affect me which I can't control). This would be hell.

> An AI could generate relevant questions, follow-up questions during the oral, and evaluate the student at the end.

I dunno about that level of automation. Maybe the proctors can use it to generate a big bag of questions beforehand, that they manually review, but generating them on the fly is just asking for trouble.

Administering the preset questions and responding to the student is a much better fit.

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