AI, Do My Homework! How Chatgpt Pitted Teachers Against Tech
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Hashim Sheikh
- . January 30, 2023
- . Update: January 31, 2023 1:02 am
Last year the Know-it-all chatbots started and announced a big booster blast for the world.
It showed that machines are becoming sensible and by this, the market is filled with panic and heat that now many industries will vanish soon and creating fear of an epidemic of cheating in schools and universities.
Concern among educators has reached a peak in recent weeks over ChatGPT which is saying that it has an easy artificial intelligence (AI) tool and a dictionary of billions of words from the web.
It can write a semi-decent essay and answer many common classroom questions just in a few minutes which is a thousand times faster than any human can do. It sparked a hot debate about the future of traditional education around the globe.
The New York City Department of Education banned ChatGPT on its network in between this season of debate and they urged that they are doing so because they are concerned about negative effects on student learning.
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A group of Australian universities said they would change exam formats to remove AI tools deemed outright cheating.
Where some people and region are showing concern and trying to ban AI in school but there is also another sector of education who are more relaxed about AI tools in the classroom. They see it as an opportunity rather than a fear for school and humans.
But is this AI reliable?
Many people and experts are saying, partly! ChatGPT in its current form still needs to be corrected. For example, It will be stuck Guatemala is bigger than Honduras.
French author and teacher Antonio Cassilli said that though ChatGPT is an important innovation, it is nothing more than a calculator or a text editor.
Though the Researcher Olivier Ertzscheid of the University of Nantes agreed that teachers should focus on positivity.
One fact is that if people try to ban ChatGPT it will attract most people. But teachers should experiment and ask students to work independently to produce more pure and effective results.
But the educators no need to panic so much because ChatGPT is an innovation of AI and it is a result of tools that have a limit.
Sometimes it was before a programmer announced that he spent his freshman year building an app that could analyze texts and decide whether they were written by ChatGPT.
But as we know universities have software to detect plagiarism by software so no need to rush to jump into the future to see AI and its condition in the writing and education field.
The idea is also to generate a digital watermark or another form of a signature that would identify the AI work.
Not everything in the thesis can be returned and created by the AI detector. It means educators and teachers are fine in the long run.
“Every time new tools appear we start to worry about potential abuses, but we’ve also found ways to use them in our teaching,” Casilli said.
