Not long ago, 24 of the top universities in the UK jointly announced that they would lift the ban on ChatGPT!
Not only did they jointly announce that students and faculty will be allowed to use generative artificial intelligence ethically, they also announced that the school will personally guide students in its use.
As soon as this news came out, British international students exploded...
It seems like just yesterday that more than 20 British schools jointly announced an explicit ban on the use of ChatGPT in papers and coursework a few months ago...
How long has it been since the ban was announced to be lifted? Will British universities finally succumb to AI?
It turns out everyone is using ChatGPT
I have to say that ChatGPA is really easy to use. In a nutshell, you can’t do it without it unless you think of it. You can translate documents, write papers, write code...
As long as your instructions are clear enough, it can give you a quick solution. Everyone who has used it says it's so powerful!
Even though major universities have long issued various statements strictly prohibiting it, when the exam season comes, there are still a large number of students who will use ChatGPT to help them complete homework and papers. Ask any international student and they will tell you, "The people around me Everybody is using it.”
There are countless ChatGPT tutorials on the Internet, teaching you how to use AI to quickly polish your paper in five minutes, and teaching you how to use ChatGPT without being discovered by the school...
According to previous statistics, nearly 90% of students in the United States have used ChatGPT to solve homework problems.
According to a survey by The Tab, British universities even found that during the exam season, the number of visits to the ChatGPT website in British universities was as high as 1 million times! The University of Warwick's Wifi alone has received more than 850,000 visits.
Although many students have been punished by schools for using ChatGPT to cheat in the past year, compared to this huge usage data, it is definitely just the tip of the iceberg.
Try every means to prevent students from using AI to cheat
After all, the degree of academic simulation of AI has even made professors at prestigious universities frankly feel panicked. Therefore, many scholars and researchers have also threatened that "ChatGPT is likely to "kill" academics step by step."
Not only are traditional plagiarism checking methods for determining plagiarism ineffective against artificial intelligence. AI can also accurately simulate a person's state when writing and simulate different writing styles.
Therefore, ghostwriting assignments through ChatGPT are often difficult to verify. The only thing you can do is talk to those students who are suspected of cheating or plagiarism, or let those students who are suspected of cheating or plagiarism take a surprise exam to test their true level.
Major universities around the world have also made great efforts to prevent students from using ChatGPT to cheat. For example, many universities in Australia are preparing to use on-site examinations as much as possible.
UCL's Department of Computing has also changed the way it examines papers, and Lancaster University has begun recommending the use of oral presentations to allow students to demonstrate their mastery of a subject.
The University of Edinburgh is developing its own AI detection tool to detect plagiarism in assignments and papers.
Recently, Turnitin, a plagiarism detection software used by most universities, announced that it can now identify whether ChatGPT has been used in papers or assignments.
It can detect the number of sentences in a written document that may have been generated by artificial intelligence. The school can then use this information to decide whether further review with the student is needed.
However, many universities in Australia still state that this technology is still in its infancy, so they will not use this technology at this stage!
Cath Ellis, an academic integrity expert at the University of New South Wales, said she was concerned the detection tool could lead to universities incorrectly identifying some students as cheating.
Perhaps when this technology is completely mature, it will become a good helper for universities to detect whether students use artificial intelligence to cheat, but it currently seems that it still needs some development time.
After all, it has only been less than ten months since ChatGPT was released, and its penetration into the academic education world has become an irreversible fact...
The impact of AI is irreversible, and "coexistence" is the general trend
More and more colleges and universities are aware of this fact and have begun to adopt a neutral or accepting attitude towards students using AI to complete homework.
Many university professors also believe that ChatGPT will be an indispensable learning tool for future students. For example, Professor Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania recognized this problem a few months ago and has begun to guide students on how to effectively use ChatGPT.
Major universities in the UK have finally decided to coexist amicably with ChatGPT this time, which is actually not difficult to predict.
The Russell Group of Universities in the UK has also developed a set of ChatGPT guiding principles this time, clearly explaining to students and professors the circumstances under which artificial intelligence can be used, so that students can use it appropriately.
Faculty who teach students about the appropriate use of AI can also make students aware of the risks of plagiarism, bias, and inaccuracies in the process of generating AI. This has also led many university professors to express their affirmation of the newly introduced ChatGPT guiding principles.
Assistance in writing English emails
You can choose ChatGPT to help resolve various emails you wrote to professors, classmates, or alumni while studying abroad.
By giving commands in Chinese/English in ChatGPT, you can let it write and reply to emails according to your own requirements. If the email you write is too long, you can ask ChatGPT to streamline it and modify it.
Translated Document Super Intelligence
ChatGPT can achieve instant translation with fast speed and accurate translation effect, which is really helpful for our international students.
And its translation quality is very high. Not only can it accurately grasp the grammar and semantics of the language combined with the context, but it can also set specific industry terms or domain keywords, which is completely comparable to manual translation.
Polishing and revision of the paper
Although we cannot completely rely on ChatGPT to write papers , it serves as an assistant for us in writing papers, helping us find examples to provide inspiration, polish articles and check for errors.
For example, it helps us improve paragraph structure and enhance paragraph logic; replace non-professional words and junk words for us, correct wrong expressions, and improve the clarity of expression.
Resume writing + mock interview
If you want to find an internship or a job while studying abroad, you need to submit your resume. ChatGPT can customize your resume according to your specific needs.
No matter which skills you want to emphasize, which specific position you want to target, or which convenient achievement you want to highlight, ChatGPT can help you complete it with one click, and can even help you simulate interviews.
It seems that the era of learning how to "coexist" with AI has really begun! After all, as a revolutionary tool, ChatGPT can actually help improve our learning and work efficiency.
However, we should also take ChatGPT seriously and use it as an auxiliary means. We should still be vigilant when using it to avoid abuse and over-reliance. After all, the growth and improvement of one's own abilities are truly irreplaceable. Don't let personalization become instrumental.