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Well, yes, but, perhaps shortsightedly, I assumed the goal of the professor was to teach the course.

Yes I feel like we still don’t have a good explanation for why AI is super human at stand alone assessments but fall down when asked to perform long term tasks.

What's the end vision here? A society of useless, catatonic humans taken care of by a superintelligence? Even if that's possible, I wouldn't call that desirable. Education is fundamental for raising competent adults.

Great question about what adults can be more competent about than an artificial superintelligence. ‘How to be a human’ comes to mind and not much more.