Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Chat GPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity

 

   Chat GPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity



Colleges around the country have been holding emergency meetings of their honor code councils or other committees that govern student cheating.


The reason: a whole new kind of cheating that is suddenly possible, thanks to a new AI tool called Chat GPT. The technology, which emerged just a couple of months ago, can answer just about any question you type into it, and can adapt those answers into a different style or tone on command.

At Texas State University, for instance, professors across the campus began emailing the honor code council with cries for help.

“So many professors right now are struggling with burnout and disengagement and so many

 other things already, that even those that embrace paradigm shifts are at minimum sighing—ugh, this is another thing for me to pay attention to,” says Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer in biology at the university who serves as vice chair of the honor code council.

He was telling me about how he’s starting to use AI tools with his students that can turn code written in one programming language into code in another language. It’s called GitHub Copilot, and it’s kind of like Chat GPT but for computing.

4th Edition of International Academic Meet on 24-25 February 2023, Netherland.



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