Centerpiece A New Age In The rise of AI chatbots sparks discussion

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at Princeton University that is able to detect if a piece of text contains material from ChatGPT.

“Obviously students take shortcuts in school, partly due to the stressors of life,” Almanza said. “So, with the advancement of AI on one end, we have to be able to create things that can detect cheating and other unethical behavior.” some challenges.” e previous paragraph was written with Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, a new Arti cial Intelligence tool developed by OpenAI, a company that is a long-term partner of Microso . ChatGPT is part of a wider range of new AI systems known as conversational chatbots, named for their ability to converse with users. e new Arti cial Intelligence tool reached almost 100 million users within the rst two months of its launch, and, currently,

Junior Arjun Melwani shares this sentiment. Melwani says he believes that banning ChatGPT completely is doing students an injustice.

Plagiarism is not the only concern with the so ware, Worcester noted.

“ ere are things we need to be careful of that are not in students’ control,” Worcester said. “ ings like privacy and data, because ChatGPT is open source, and depending on what their terms and conditions look like, they may collect data when students put information in.”

However, Worcester says these concerns are not a reason to ban the so ware altogether.

“ e tech o ce is limiting many people to be able to learn how to use these tools at a young age,” Melwani said. “Isolating people from ideas has never been something that works. When it comes to the real world and people are using it, students won’t know how to interact with it.”

ChatGPT is free for users, allowing students to explore the so ware o the campus on personal devices.