Check out this interesting article written by Isle of Man Media which was published in the Manx Independent.
University College Isle of Man (UCM) is closely monitoring the developments of a new artificial intelligence chatbot.
Launched less than two months ago, ChatGPT is already changing the way that some university lecturers are thinking of marking and assessing work.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence tool in which anyone can ask it a question, and it will respond with detail and for the most part, accuracy. From explaining quantum mechanics to writing sonnets, ChatGPT provides a breadth of information written with human-like responses. The chatbot was launched in November 2022 by OpenAI.
In the last fortnight, Microsoft said that it will invest $10 billion in OpenAI, according to Bloomberg.
Since its launch, there have been concerns in higher education that students would use artificial intelligence to complete essays and assignments.
Dr Alistair Robertson, a lecturer in computer science at UCM, and machine-learning specialist, said: ‘In my domain area, big data analytics, and the AI that spins up on it, I asked it a raft of questions around that, and it was actually giving some pretty good responses. However, it did not have the depth that I would expect a very good student to produce. It would give a student a head start in understanding the domain area, and then they could plug it in. The responses would probably be the level of a year one university student, but for a third-year student we would expect a much higher output than it will generally produce.’
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