ChatGPT gives me a summary of the article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/13/software-student-cheated-combat-ai
Robert Topinka, a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, explores the dilemma professors face with students’ use of AI to write essays. After flagging an essay as “100% AI-generated,” Topinka lands in a tough spot when an exceptionally bright student challenges the accusation. The case highlights the problems with AI detectors like Turnitin, which can mistake legitimate technological support used by students for cheating. Topinka argues we must adapt academic assessment to the AI era, proposing alternatives such as presentations and podcasts to demonstrate students’ critical and original thinking, avoiding unfair accusations and promoting equal educational opportunities.
ChatGPT summarizes the article in The Guardian for me: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/13/software-student-cheated-combat-ai
Robert Topinka, professor at Birkbeck, University of London, explores the dilemma professors face with students using AI to write essays. After detecting an essay marked as “100% AI-generated”, Topinka finds himself in a difficult situation when an exceptionally brilliant student challenges this accusation. The case highlights the challenges of AI detectors, like Turnitin, which can confuse students’ legitimate use of technological support with cheating. Topinka argues for the need to adapt academic assessment to the AI era, proposing alternatives like presentations and podcasts to demonstrate students’ critical and original thinking, while avoiding unfair accusations and promoting educational equality.
In this post, I present an important document prepared by the UPC Doctoral School. It is the study “Data and applications: analysis of habits in data management and application use among doctoral students at the UPC North Campus”, based on a survey and a focus group carried out during the months of June and July.
Legend has it that the wise Anand (a name suggested by ChatGPT, whom I call Skippy ^2) helped King Devendra (a name also proposed by Skippy) solve a difficult problem. In gratitude Devendra offered Anand the payment he desired. Anand asked that the king give him a grain of rice for the first square of a chessboard and that he double the amount in each successive square. The king accepted, but after a good while the king’s mathematicians informed him that there was not enough wheat in the entire kingdom to pay what Anand asked for.
[Note: using OpenAI’s API has its costs. The cost of using the translator will depend on the size of the documents you translate. As a guideline, so far with development, tests, and translating a few documents I’ve spent €0.03. ]
[Note: this post has been translated with my own translator] [Note: using the API has costs; the cost of use depends on the size of the documents. As a rough guide during development, tests and various translations of 2-page documents I spent 0.0.3€ over 5 days]
On March 2, 2023, I took part in the session on AI chatbots in higher education organized by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya UIC. At https://www.linkedin.com/events/sessi-sobrexatbotsd-intel-lig-n7034187811851235329/comments/ you can find the video of the event. Yours truly and his talk appear starting at 1h:25 minutes.
Contents # What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is Software As A Service (SaaS) Terms and conditions Authorship rights and responsibility for ChatGPT’s outputs Cost and access What’s ChatGPT for and why is it free? ChatGPT isn’t open source Ethical aspects Ethical reflections from the creators of GPT-3 The ChatGPT Hype What is ChatGPT ? # ChatGTP is a web application based on GPT-3, specifically the GPT-3.5 “text-davinci-003” model developed by OpenAi. The ChatGPT model is optimized to work in conversational form, responding to inputs that users provide as a text “prompt”. ChatGPT is a type of Generative AI based on a Machine Learning Model . We can consider ChatGPT a weak AI (see Types of Artificial Intelligence].
If you’re an educator and you’re interested in generative AI and its applications in teaching, you’ll be glad to know you can now access the videos from the course “ChatGPT: Opportunity and Challenge for Teaching” on my YouTube channel. This course covers ChatGPT, a text-generating AI tool introduced at the end of 2022, and its implications for university teaching.
John Mc Carty lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K13_sWm_gZw&t=23s