New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has changed his approach to assessing students' homework after finding that artificial intelligence (AI) tools were helping them achieve high scores.

Richard Borcherds, a mathematician who won the prestigious Fields Medal in 1998, believes the growing use of AI in academic assignments has made conventional grading less meaningful. He now places greater emphasis on whether students submit their homework rather than whether their answers are correct.

"Student use of AI for homework is now widespread," Borcherds said, according to a report by the New York Post. "Grading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework instead of doing it ...