If ChatGPT has given Google a sense of crisis, then since its inception, whether it is answering questions, writing articles, writing code, or participating in the design and construction of the Metaverse, it is no problem. It’s even fully integrated into some people’s daily workflow.
However, technology is a double-edged sword. While the encyclopedic chatbot ChatGPT provides convenience for some people, it also unintentionally has some bad effects on society. At present, ChatGPT can generate original texts on almost any topic according to prompts, including articles, papers, stories and even poems, and users have also exacerbated academic misconduct to a certain extent.
According to a Reuters report on January 27, the French elite Sciences Po announced on Friday that the school had sent emails to all students and teachers requesting that all AI-based tools such as ChatGPT be banned to prevent academic fraud and plagiarism .
“Students are prohibited from using the software to complete any written assignments or presentations, unless it is for a specific course purpose and supervised by the course leader,” the announcement from Sciences Po said. Students who use the software may face expulsion, the university said. punishment, and may even be expelled from the French higher education system.
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In the United States, in order to test ChatGPT’s ability to cope with four course exams, professors at the University of Minnesota Law School recently let ChatGPT take the test and conducted a blind review of the test results. After completing 95 multiple-choice questions and 12 essay questions, ChatGPT’s average score was C+, which can only be regarded as a passing level.
On Wharton’s business administration course exam, ChatGPT performed even better, earning grades from B to B-. Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch said ChatGPT did a “remarkable job” at answering basic operations management and process analysis questions, but struggled with more advanced prompts and made “disgusting mistakes” with basic math. Surprised mistakes”, some of which are only at the level of elementary school mathematics.
As ChatGPT continues to iterate, and without restraint, it may be used by students to complete homework and exams, and even graduation thesis. In order to prevent it from becoming the most powerful cheating tool in history, when the test results came out, more and more schools and teachers expressed concerns about ChatGPT’s ability to cheat. For example, public schools in New York City and Seattle have banned students and teachers from using ChatGPT on the district’s network and devices, and some U.S. universities have announced plans to increase the weight of handwritten essays and oral exams.
In academia, ChatGPT will face stricter regulations!
Holden Thorpe, editor-in-chief of Science, a well-known American academic journal, announced an updated editorial policy that prohibits the use of text from ChatGPT and stated that ChatGPT cannot be listed as a collaborator.
Scientific journals require authors to sign a statement committing themselves to responsibility for their articles, Holdenshal said. “But because ChatGPT can’t do that, it can’t be an author.” He believes that using ChatGPT is problematic even at the stage of preparing a paper. “ChatGPT makes a lot of mistakes, and these mistakes may find their way into the literature.”
Another Springer-Nature, which has published nearly 3,000 journals, also issued a statement stating that ChatGPT cannot be listed as an author.
Perhaps the harshest belongs to Stack Overflow, an online programming question-and-answer platform. Not long after ChatGPT was launched, it announced a complete ban on ChatGPT and any non-artificially generated answers, and further stipulated that once users violated it, they would be banned directly.
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Although publishers including Nature explicitly prohibit ChatGPT from being an author, and many colleges and universities also strictly prohibit using it to write homework, some professors have taken the initiative to accept this new product.
According to NPR (National Public Radio), Ethan Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, volunteered to ask students to use ChatGPT to help them complete their homework. He believes that AI will never be able to become the “best expert” in a certain field. But through hard work, human beings can still become the best in a certain field.
Professor Christian Terwiesch, mentioned above, also said he agreed that there should be restrictions on students when they take exams. “The ban is necessary,” he said. “After all, when you give a doctor a degree, you want them to actually have medical knowledge, not just know how to use a chatbot. The same applies to other skill certifications, including law and Business majors, etc.”
But Christian Terwiesch believes that the technology will still appear in the classroom eventually. “If all we end up with is the same education system as before, then we are wasting the wonderful opportunity that ChatGPT brings.”
Summarize
In response to some negative feedback, OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, is working to develop mitigations to help people detect text automatically generated by AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed to try watermarking technology and other technologies to mark the content generated by ChatGPT, but admitted that it is impossible to be perfect.
At the same time, AI technology is already affecting various industries, and its integration with the current world is gradually deepening. In a program called The Crypto Mile, Daniel Hulme, chief AI officer of the global advertising giant WPP, stated that ChatGPT is a large-scale language model and believes that the model will be revolutionary.
After all, the measure of success in the future will be the ability of an individual or an organization to quickly adapt to a changing world. He also bluntly stated that the disruptive power of artificial intelligence may automatically replace many jobs that people do today, so society needs to find a balance from it to avoid potential social unrest.
