ChatGPT, the chat bot that was launched at the end of November, managed to shock everyone with what it could do. The bot, which can still be considered a ‘new’ product, could write any type of application in any programming language, solve complex problems and extract completely organic texts.
The sophistication of ChatGPT also caused some concerns. Recently, one of these concerns has become a reality. An Adjunct Professor in the USA caught his student cheating on ChatGPT.
Student printed the paper assignment to ChatGPT:
Adjunct Professor Darren Hick, who teaches philosophy at Furman University, gave his students a 500-word essay assignment. The topic of the article was about how people enjoy what they fear. When the academic became suspicious of one of the incoming papers, he analyzed the text with the help of software.
The result of the software proved the doubt correct: The text was written by an artificial intelligence with a 99.9% probability. But the software offered no evidence of this. Hick later decided to use ChatGPT himself for the same issue.
While the answers he obtained were similar to the student’s article, they were not the same. The real truth emerged with the student’s confession. Speaking to his student, the Assistant Professor learned that the article was written with ChatGPT from the student’s mouth.
So how was the article by ChatGPT?
The article written by ChatGPT was a grade 12 student-level article, according to the Assistant Professor. There were also some word usages in the article that seemed strange to a student. While these usages were correct, they were not actually at the level of the students.
So what was the result?
The student who wrote an article to ChatGPT failed the course. The academician expressed his concerns for the future as follows:
“This is software that ‘learns’ – in a month it will get smarter. In a year it will be even smarter. I also find myself in the mix between great fear and what this will mean for my day-to-day work. On the other hand, it’s fascinating, endlessly fascinating.”
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