ChatGPT Disrupts Academics Professors and students discuss impact of artifcial intelligence

By JULIA SENZON Sun Staff Writer

Long gone are antiquated excuses of dogs eating homework and students selling essays after class. The new enemy of plagiarism and cheating is an artificial intelligence chatbot known as ChatGPT.

ChatGPT was built by OpenAI, a San Francisco technology company also credited for GPT-3 and DALL-E2. The platform, launched on Nov. 30, attracted a million users in its first five days.

ChatGPT uses a type of machine learning called natural language processing to generate realistic language at any level.

Previous AI chatbots were capable of specific, explicitly defined jobs like writing marketing copies, but they failed when tasked outside their areas of expertise. ChatGPT is more flexible and intelligent — able to both write jokes and explain scientific concepts at high levels.

Ph.D. student in information science Jose Guridi