The conversation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in academia is one that has taken precedence in recent years due to technological advances in the AI industry.
There are pros and cons with the uses of AI. One pro is the immersive learning experience artificial intelligence can offer. Personalized learning is a swiftly growing area of AI. A con to AI is the possible misuse in academic settings, risking academic integrity.
One of the best and well known AI programs is Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer v.3.50 (ChatGPT).Â
ChatGPT is a language model trained by OpenAI, an initiative founded in 2015 in San Francisco, and is used in various ways in academia, such as language translation, document summarization, question-answer based systems and language modeling. It’s widely viewed as the most complex language model ever created.
ChatGPT creates a significant advantage in the academic production process, especially in terms of saving time. It can shorten long processes like accessing and organizing information related to research areas, allowing people to organize information quicker than ever. It can be expected that college students may find the value in it more than anyone.
With the growing use of AI, research has hence accelerated, leading to new medication discoveries and life-saving medical treatments. Scientists can now focus their efforts on analyzing instead of reading endless background information and data.
In random tests conducted with plagiarism detection software, ChatGPT’s work was not detected because it read much like a human’s work. There is no plagiarism checker that is specifically designed to detect text made by ChatGPT and other language models.
With the speed and convenience provided by ChatGPT in academic processes, it risks the disadvantage of weakening the ability to conduct academic research over the course of the future. The increasing ease of accessing information through this technology might lead to the erosion of research skills for both students and academics.
