For Star subscribers: The new artificial intelligence software could be used to plagiarize. But University of Arizona educators say it's also the latest tool for pushing the boundaries of learning.
Kathryn Palmer When Logan Sandlin first tried using ChatGPT — the new artificial intelligence software that can write essays, formulate code and assist users in a conversational way — he was worried.
People are also reading… “Or you can ask ChatGPT and it comes up with an answer right away,” he said. “And even if it’s not a perfect answer it always puts me on the right path to finding the answer.” The emergence of this powerful new technology has some education leaders sounding alarms about a new era of academic dishonesty.
“The wrong thing to do is to try and fight against the technology,” said Greg Heileman, an electrical and computer engineering professor and vice provost of undergraduate education at the UA. But the current panic about ChatGPT — that it’s coming for our jobs and will undermine our education institutions — follows a historical pattern of humans reacting to new technology that disrupts the status quo.
In Heileman’s view, that means, at the very least, there aren’t many excuses left for turning in poorly written assignments and job applications.
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