Is ChatGPT The Future Of Education Or A Cheating Temptation?

A month after the New York City Department of Education banned chatGPT access on its networks, Silicon Valley educators are trying to find new and innovative ways to “remove the temptation.”

What Happened: Across Silicon Valley, school districts and universities are reimagining how they teach and test students because the OpenAI-powered chatbot, chatGPT, has raised concerns about the technology being a serious “cheating temptation,” reported NBC Bay Area.  

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The report cited a survey of the largest educational institutions across the nine-county Bay Area, home to approximately half a million students. 

Schools like Berkeley, Stanford, San Francisco State and San Jose State recently held internal meetings to combat the impact of AI on their classrooms. However, no school banned access to the website. 

Brian Green, a professor at Santa Clara University, believes that one of his students used ChatGPT to submit an essay, which can be essentially constituted as cheating and plagiarism for a course on ‘Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.’

Green used to assign students to write essays for final grades but has now changed his teaching and testing methodology to oral presentations. “I’m trying to kind of remove the temptation.”

Why It’s Important: ChatGPT and similar AI technologies have ignited a tough conversation among educators and tech experts. 

While some hail chatGPT’s ability to give conversational answers, others, including Noam Chomsky, have concerns regarding the technology being used for academic dishonesty. 

Last month, OpenAI introduced a tool to distinguish between human and AI-generated texts — but this platform has many flaws.  

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