ChatGPT has the potential to create increasing and exciting opportunities \u2013 but also poses significant challenges \u2013 for the academic community, according to a study written in large part using the software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is the latest chatbot and artificial intelligence (AI) platform touted as having the potential to revolutionize research and education. However, as it becomes ever more advanced, the technology has also prompted concerns across the education sector about academic honesty and plagiarism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To address some of these, the new study<\/a> out of the University of Plymouth uses ChatGPT to demonstrate how sophisticated Large Language Machines (LLMs) have become and the steps that can be taken to ensure their influence remains a positive one. The University, along with Marjon University Plymouth, talked about the paper in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n For the majority of the paper, they used a series of prompts and questions to encourage ChatGPT to produce content in an academic style. These included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the text was generated, they copied and pasted the output into the manuscript, ordered it broadly following the structure suggested by ChatGPT, and then inserted genuine references throughout. This process was only revealed to readers in the paper\u2019s discussion section, written directly by the researchers without the software\u2019s input. In that section, the study\u2019s authors highlight that the text produced by ChatGPT \u2013 while much more sophisticated than previous innovations in this area \u2013 can be relatively formulaic and that several existing AI-detection tools would pick up on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, they say their findings should serve as a wake-up call to university staff to think very carefully about the design of their assessments and ways to ensure that academic dishonesty is clearly explained to students and minimized.<\/p>\n\n\n Professor Debby Cotton from Plymouth University, the study\u2019s lead author, commented: \u201cThis latest AI development brings huge challenges for universities, not least in testing student knowledge and teaching writing skills \u2013 but looking positively, it is an opportunity for us to rethink what we want students to learn and why. I\u2019d like to think that AI would enable us to automate some of the more administrative tasks academics do, allowing more time to be spent working with students\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this regard, Dr. Peter Cotton, Associate Professor in Ecology at the University of Plymouth, believes that banning ChatGPT can only constitute a short-term solution while developing ideas on how to properly address the issues. AI is already widely accessible to students outside their institutions, with companies like Microsoft and Google rapidly incorporating it into search engines and Office suites in the professional world. Dr. Cotton believes that “the chat is already out of the bag,” and the imminent challenge for universities will be to adapt to a system where AI is the expected norm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lastly, Dr. Reuben. Shipway, lecturer in Marine Biology at Plymouth, said: \u201cWith any new revolutionary technology \u2013 and this is a revolutionary technology \u2013 there will be winners and losers. The losers will be those that fail to adapt to a rapidly changing landscape. 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