Due to concerns that students are exploiting new artificial intelligence software to produce essays, Australian universities have been obliged to alter the way they administer exams and other forms of assessment.
Some students have already been caught using the software, and major schools have adopted new policies declaring that employing AI constitutes cheating. However, one AI specialist cautioned that colleges were engaged in a futile "arms race."
Due to concerns over its "bad influence on student learning" and potential for plagiarism, ChatGPT, which creates text on any subject in response to a prompt or query, was introduced by OpenAI in November but has already been prohibited across all devices in New York's public schools.
One academic in London tested it against a question from a 2022 exam and noted that the AI's response was "coherent, comprehensive, and sticks to the points, something students often fail to do," adding that he would have to "set a different kind of exam" or deny students internet access for subsequent exams.
The capacity of ChatGPT and comparable technology to get through anti-plagiarism software while offering speedy and reliable academic writing has raised worries among academics in Australia.
The nation's top research-intensive universities, known as the Group of Eight, declared that the emergence of new technology had caused them to change how they would conduct exams this year.
Dr. Matthew Brown, the group's deputy chief executive, claimed that the schools were "proactively confronting" AI through targeted technical and other detection measures as well as student and staff training and assessment redesign.
The Australian National University has modified its evaluation strategies to emphasize fieldwork and laboratory work, timing exams, and increase oral presentations.
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