Recently, the BBC reported a piece of news:
A student at Cardiff University wrote a paper using ChatGPT in the final exam and got a first-class result, you know, this is the highest grade in a British university, while his other paper did not use ChatGPT and only got Got a second-class result.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately attracted widespread attention from various universities. The Cardiff school stated: "Academic misconduct, including plagiarism, is a 'very serious problem', and the improper use of artificial intelligence programs (such as ChatGPT) is also not appropriate. be tolerated."
ChatGPT also has flaws
Many students use ChatGPT to pass the exam because they think that artificial intelligence is absolutely objective and precise, and even if there is a mistake, it is a very small probability event. But is that really the case?
Previously, a professor at the University of Bath used ChatGPT to write a final thesis for a certain major. The title of the thesis was "Why is it important to understand the timing of exercise in relation to nutrition status in people with overweight?" and analyzed the generated content. analyzed.
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It turns out that the content output by ChatGPT does look "perfect"-careful and professional words, clear logic, and fluent language. But the professor said that if you look closely, you will find that some of the sentences are not written by college students, but by junior high school students, and ChatGPT likes to repeat the original words in the question, but write them in a slightly different way.
In addition, ChatGPT has the phenomenon of fabricating information. For example, author names and journal names cited in references seem reasonable, but they do not exist. "
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Therefore, the professor believes that ChatGPT is good at answering objective questions such as multiple-choice questions, but when it comes to subjective questions that require dialectical thinking, ChatGPT's performance is actually average.
How do UK institutions view ChatGPT?
As ChatGPT is increasingly used in exams, papers and other occasions, major universities in the UK have also begun to face up to the impact of AI on the academic world. At present, 8 universities out of the 24 members of the Russell Group of Russell Group have explicitly prohibited students from using ChatGPT in assignments and papers , otherwise it will involve academic misconduct.
Institutions that prohibit students from using ChatGPT:
Oxford University: "Students have been advised that AI tools such as ChatGPT will not be allowed to be used in their assessment assignments until further notice."
University of Cambridge : "ChatGPT does not represent the student's own original work and will therefore be considered a form of academic misconduct to be dealt with under the University's disciplinary procedures."
Imperial College: "Submitting assignments or papers that have been created by someone or something is plagiarism and is a form of cheating, and this includes artificial intelligence-generated content." IC considers plagiarism to be serious academic misconduct and should Expulsion from school.
University of Manchester : "Such assignments will be considered academic misconduct and AI-generated words and ideas are not your own."
University of Edinburgh: Content generated using artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT "cannot be considered the student's own original work and will therefore be considered a form of academic misconduct". They are actively looking for new curriculum design and assessment methods, hoping to incorporate these new technologies into teaching applications.
University of Birmingham : "Using artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT to help with assignments and essays is considered unacceptable under our Code of Practice for Academic Integrity and Code of Student Conduct . We have updated our study guides to hopefully make this clear to students."
University of Bristol: "Unauthorized use of ChatGPT and other similar software by students is considered cheating.
Queen Mary University of London: "Using ChatGPT to write papers will constitute plagiarism".
But there are also universities that recognize ChatGPT:
UCL is the only G5 institution that allows students to use ChatGPT. The school says people can use ChatGPT to draft or structure ideas and help improve grammar and writing structure. But it can only be assisted. For example, you can use ChatGPT to search for information on acknowledgments and references, and you cannot directly generate a paper. And said that if students use these AI tools, they must declare to the instructor. The UCL official website also gives an example of how to mark and cite AI resources in papers after using AI tools.
Both the University of Warwick and Queen's University Belfast stated that they did not prohibit students from using ChatGPT, and that the technology could be well "used and learned" by students.
University of Nottingham: "We will train teachers so that they can identify the writing style of students, so as to judge whether students use ChatGPT to complete their assignments."
It can be found that at present, various universities in the UK have different views on artificial intelligence, but as ChatGPT technology matures day by day, UK universities should have new cognitions and actions on it. but! Dear students, don't think about using ChatGPT to cheat, because cheating and plagiarism are strictly prohibited no matter where they are.