CHATGPT GOES TO COLLEGE

By Isabelle Guthrie

What if you had a technology that could write your papers for you and you don’t have to worry about paying anyone else to do it? Well that technology exists and is called ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is a pre-trained generative chat, which makes use of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The source of its data is textbooks, websites, and various articles, which it uses to model its own language for responding to human interaction, according to an article called What is ChatGPT—What is it Used For? by Kevin

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ChatGPT can answer questions naturally in a more conversational tone versus a robot tone like Siri, for example. It also can write code, an article or blog post, a story/ poem, translate, and debug, according to Pocock.

There is a website called OpenAI that introduces ChatGPT and includes a button you can click on to try it out. There is also information explaining its limitations including some sample questions you can ask it.

Since this new technology came out, students have used it to see how well it works. Some students haven’t heard of this new technology, but are immediately interested after finding out what it can do.

Aleisha Lewis, a Kean University junior and marketing major, heard about ChatGPT in her classes and on the news. However, she wasn’t sure how it worked until recently.

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“I think it could be a useful tool for anyone who wants to save time/money or needs specific and accurate information on an everyday basis without human error,” Lewis said.

Anthony Ravelle, a Kean junior and global business of a detailed description of what you've asked. It is very fast and it is able to do things that take us hours to do, in seconds,” Ravelle said. major, has heard of it and used it. He was very surprised at how efficient it is.

There are some concerns about how professors would feel about this AI and if they would allow students to use it. Meghan Gill, adjunct professor in the communication, media, and journalism department, has used it and is more open minded to this AI.

“I have used it before and I downloaded the app. I think for us, the academic world, it presents a challenge but also an opportunity. The evolution of AI is so quick. Everyday is a new possibility that it is difficult for us to process. It’s a double edged sword, I would say. But I always look at these as an opportunity rather than with fear,” said Gill.

Gill also stated that she would let students use it, but with certain guidelines.

“Absolutely I would allow students to use it, but I would want to have set guidelines or rules of its usage. I would love students to give critical responses to the responses from ChatGPT,” Gill said.

With students possibly using ChatGPT for assignments, there are solutions for professors, who wouldn’t allow it to be used, to make sure they are not using the AI.

“ChatGPT is insane. You can ask it virtually anything and within seconds it is able to generate a page response

Turnitin is one of those solutions that usually checks for plagiarism and can now detect AI-assisted writing and AI writing, according to Turnitin’s website.

This gives professors some relief when assigning essays