, OpenAI touts ChatGPT as being extremely advanced. Users can give the chatbot a prompt and it spits back what it deems to be a well-informed answer. A reporter from theand gave ChatGPT a 500 to 1,000 word high school AP English essay prompt about “Ferris Bueller.”
The chatbot put out an 800-word essay in seconds, and although there were a few factual errors, a New Jersey AP English teacher gave it a passing grade of a B- to a C. Dan Gillmor, a journalism professor at Arizona State University, gave ChatGPT a lesson he assigns his students—hethe Guardian the bot would’ve gotten “a good grade.
Business Insider he caught a student turning in a paper written by ChatGPT because although it was very well-written, there was a lot of misinformation. However, not many universities have created rules to fight against this type of cheating.Teachers and school officials are wary of plagiarism, which is inevitable if students use ChatGPT for assignments. A Midwestern high school seniorhe used the chatbot for two separate homework assignments: a computer science quiz and a coding assignment.
Brought to you by the same people that said “When you grow up you won’t just have a calculator in your pocket” to students a generation ago.