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how the economy really works. Lots of college campuses have big lawns with walkways meant to keep everybody from trampling things.

But as a species, we are primed to look for the easiest, most efficient way of doing stuff.

And if that pavement is not laid in the most direct line between popular destinations,

everybody ignores it and cuts across the grass instead, forming a trail

that landscape architects call a desire path. And while the physical shortcuts might change the

look of a campus over time, intellectual shortcuts are changing the entire experience of higher

education. From KERA in Dallas, this is Think.

I'm Chris Boyd.

The university undergraduates who will receive their diplomas this month have had access

to chat GPT since the fall of their freshman year, and by all accounts, they have made

extensive use of artificial intelligence to get through college.

Some have used the tech as a study aid.

Some have used it to do their assignments for them.

And as my guest has learned, one outcome of all this is that nobody, not professors or prospective

employers or even graduating students themselves, nobody is entirely clear on what these

young people are capable of.

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