The emergence of smarter, more accessible artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT will undoubtedly change higher education – but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, according to experts.
OpenAI’s new bot has rapidly gained attention since its launch, with much of the commentary focusing on how students may be able to use it to plagiarise answers to essay questions that are undetectable by software such as Turnitin.
While academics have been concerned about AI-generated assignments for some time, ChatGPT “moves the field leaps ahead in generating text from prompts”, according to Kate Devlin, reader in artificial intelligence and society at King’s College London.
