Developed by OpenAI as an intelligent conversational agent, ChatGPT has exploded in popularity since it was launched on November 30, 2022, and has been an educational tool for what academic integrity looks like in the world of AI. I am making people think.
Questions and concerns about the use of generative AI at the University of Alberta are already on the minds of educators and academics across the university.of Provost Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Learning Environments ChatGPT or Themed on reimagining tradition, the 2023 Education and Learning Festival concludes on Thursday, May 4, 2023. Keynote on AI and education.
What is ChatGPT?
A powerful natural language processing and question answering system, ChatGPT provides an easy-to-use text interface for users to create simple prompts, ask questions, and request generation of different types of text . ChatGPT’s power lies in its large and sophisticated natural language models and large underlying datasets that enable exceptionally good learning and prediction from the next word in a sentence. ChatGPT’s underlying data comes from a huge number of sources, including data from the Internet, Wikipedia, Google Books, coding tutorials, and Common Crawl, a large-scale system that crawls the web and makes its archives and datasets available to the public. is using
What you can do with ChatGPT
One of ChatGPT’s notable and powerful features is its ability to generate text that is difficult to distinguish from human-generated text. This feature has the potential to offer many possibilities for generating automatic texts, summaries, paragraphs, essays, articles, and other types of writing without human intervention. For example, ChatGPT can write an essay based on topic prompts with a set number of words, including citations, references, and spelling styles. You can write introductions, summaries, stories and poems. Create detailed course descriptions and summaries.
ChatGPT: Key Concerns
The introduction of ChatGPT has raised many academic integrity issues and concerns for educational and academic institutions. Many universities, educational institutions and researchers are rethinking and rethinking how to make assessments, exams and tests plagiarism-proof, as ChatGPT can be used to easily generate texts for all kinds of assignments, essays and projects. I’m in the middle of it. Injustice. Some of the main concerns relate to ways in which ChapGPT can be used to write essays, term projects, and journal articles, which can compromise the integrity of academics, research, and scholarship. increase. Additionally, many academics have expressed concern that AI tools such as ChatGPT may adversely affect students’ critical thinking, learning experience, research training, and imagination. Another concern for higher education institutions is the potential impact AI tools such as ChatGPT have on student applications and admissions processes. More specifically, how do you ensure the academic integrity of an applicant’s dossier for admission, such as a statement of purpose and intent or essay requirements for undergraduate and graduate programs?
This question of whether to allow ChatGPT in schools and colleges is also at the center of many discussions in the media, K-12 and higher education institutions. There are competing views on whether ChatGPT should be considered for teaching and learning. Some institutions and educators have argued that ChatGPT should be banned in schools and colleges. for example, New York Department of Education announced that it has banned ChatGPT on all public school networks and devices. of the University of Sydney Our latest Academic Integrity Policy specifically mentions “using artificial intelligence to generate content” as a form of cheating. In the UK, instructors are being encouraged to rethink how they assess students in their courses, given that some students are already using AI tools that can produce high-quality essays.
In contrast, some Canadian universities have seen educators and instructors engage with students and be candid about tools and their limitations, and how to avoid plagiarism and breaches of academic integrity when using AI-enabled tools. We encourage discussion. Sarah Elaine Eaton, academic integrity expert argues that instead of thwarting AI-enabled tools such as ChatGPT, we need to critically evaluate how they conduct their evaluations. This approach requires an open discussion with students about their learning and how these tools can help or hinder their learning opportunities and experiences. Methods such as take-home exams, out-of-class written assignments, and online exams are being re-evaluated and replaced with non-text, skill-based and sometimes multimodal tests, exams, and assignments. Examples of how assignments stand up to his ChatGPT include creating video presentations, podcasts, posters, in-class deliverables and research.
Rethinking assessment strategies and approaches
The question of whether or not students and researchers should use ChatGPT has become an emerging hot topic of debate, but there are now alternative assessment approaches and strategies, as well as academic honesty policies and , rules. These efforts ensure academic integrity by critically considering how assessments can be conducted to prevent k-12, undergraduate, and graduate students from relying heavily on AI tools such as his ChatGPT. It is intended to Many Australian universities are rethinking how exams and other assessments are created and administered, arguing that there should be more written and exams (Cassidy, 2023). A similar approach has been adopted by several UK universities. For example, the UK’s Computer Science department has removed the option for essay-based assignments and bases its assessment solely on skill-based assessment methods.
Is there an application that detects text generated by ChatGPT?
There are many applications that can detect text similarity, such as Grammarly, Turnitin, and Copyscape. However, these tools have limitations as they rely on their own underlying text databases with limited coverage. This R&D area is emerging and evolving. One of the latest developments specifically related to ChatGPT is an application called Chatzero (Humans Deserve The Truth). Edward Tian was developed by Canadian students in the Princeton Computer Science Program. Generated by AI agents or humans to provide a plagiarism score. While the application is in the early stages of development and maturity, some early tests against ChatGPT-generated text already show promise. No doubt there will be years of debate over whether to allow students to use his AI-enabled tools such as his ChatGPT in academia. Information science educators and researchers are critically and positively interested in how research into digital and data literacy and information search and retrieval behavior can inform the development and responsible use of AI tools such as ChatGBT. I have the knowledge and the opportunity to contribute.
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Following the closing keynote of the 2023 Festival of Teaching and Learning (FoTL) by Aimée Morrison (University of Waterloo) on May 4, 2023, Ali Shiri spoke at a panel with AI and digital pedagogy scholars across the University of Alberta. We are going to talk about AI. and education.
This year’s Hybrid FoTL will take place May 2-4, 2023. Please check the schedule and register.
About Ali
Ali Shiri is a professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and is currently Associate Dean of the Department of Graduate Studies and Research. He received his PhD in Information Science from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in 2004 and entered the University of Alberta the same year. He has spent the last 20 years teaching, researching and writing about digital library and digital information interaction and retrieval. In his current research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, he is developing a cultural heritage digital library and digital storytelling system for the Inuvialuit community in western Arctic Canada. I’m here. Most recently, Ali has researched and written about AI and ethics.
