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UK students to be allowed to use ChatGPT for coursework under Government plans

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My wife is a university professor in the states, she said it's incredibly obvious who has started to use a GPT for the work they turn in. There is a lot of wrestling going on within the staff in her department on what they should do, some people want to outright ban anything that "seems" it was written by a LLM. As my wife discussed with me, it's hard to know how much was written by GPT and how much was edited by the student, maybe they asked 50 questions to the LLM and then copy/pasted it together themselves, maybe they used it for the outline, and filled in the details themselves. The lines can get pretty blurry. One thing that it seems most of the profs find annoying is... they're aware that GPT can invent convincing sounding sources, so they're doing a lot more work verifying sources.

> it's incredibly obvious who has started to use a GPT for the work they turn in.

Yes that jump in intellectual prowess shows an intelligence can adapt in order to game the system that awards the grades.

Its a bit like looking for the ultra heavy suitcases at an airport check in because its loaded with kilos of cocaine and thus weighs considerably more than your average travellers clothes. Meta data comes in all shapes and sizes!

> they're aware that GPT can invent convincing sounding sources, so they're doing a lot more work verifying sources.

So are teaching staff demanding pay rises to cope with the extra work load, because ChatGPT can work with the latest global scientific discoveries faster than the ideas can filter out to the educational systems, their curriculum and textbooks?

It will be interesting to see if anyone gets marked down for using the latest knowledge and opinion because the teachers and examiners are out of date.

If its not obvious, AI could take on, the entire scientific community, something the legal system will have to deal with, because currently the judiciary can pick and choose their scientific "committee" of experts and rig court cases however they like.

But it looks like the educational system is having its Watergate moment.

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