How ChatGPT could make it easy to cheat on written tests and homework trends now
A new artificial intelligence chatbot could make it much easier for students to cheat on tests and homework that require written answers.
Billed by technologists and industry watchers as the most powerful AI chatbot ever released, ChatGPT is the latest effort from OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company that also made tools like DALL-E 2, the image generator that made a splash earlier this year.
ChatGPT, which has been trained on a gigantic sample of text from the internet, can understand human language, conduct conversations with humans and generate detailed text that many have said is human-like and quite impressive.
'We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way,' OpenAI said in a statement. 'The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.'
A new artificial intelligence chatbot - which more than a million people signed up to test in five days - could make it much easier for students to cheat on tests and homework that require written answers
Although ChatGPT has been released to the public for anyone to use, for free, the AI has been so popular that OpenAI had to temporarily shut down the demo link today. More than a million people signed up in the first five days it was released.
This type of AI could be misused in countless ways, from furthering misinformation and hateful content to stealing the copyrighted work of published authors and upending the entire education system.
Kevin Bryan, an associate professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto who ran an AI-based entrepreneurship program and follows the industry closely, said he was 'shocked' by the capabilities of ChatGPT after he tested it by having the AI write numerous exam answers.
'You can no longer give take-home exams/homework,' he said at the start of a thread detailing the AI's abilities.
He asked the AI 'whether a new cash-constrained auto startup will have trouble motivating suppliers with relational contracts, what they can do instead, and what it means for the boundaries of the firm.'
The results were deemed worthy of an A.
It's worth noting that ChatGPT does not trawl the internet for answers in the model of Google Search, and it's knowledge is restricted to things it learned before 2021. It is also prone to giving simplistic, more moderate responses.
OpenAI has programmed the bot to refuse 'inappropriate requests' - which includes requests for generating instructions for illegal activities, such as how to make a bomb.
Kevin Bryan, an associate professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto who ran an AI-based entrepreneurship program and follows the industry closely, said he was 'shocked' by the capabilities of ChatGPT
In assigning the AI various tasks, some of which involved combining knowledge across different areas, Bryan said it performed 'frankly better than an average MBA'
