A number of schools and universities around the world have taken the initiative, successively, to ban the use of the chatbot “GBT Chat” and other artificial intelligence tools, for fear of turning them into a means of fraud and impersonation, while the defenders of these technologies see “short-sightedness” in this reaction.
Since ChatGBT and its automatically generated texts became available to the public last November, schools and educational institutions have been trying to prevent their students from using it during exams as well as in homework.
“It’s a new world. Bye homework!” Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI, the startup that created the artificial intelligence app ChatGBT, wrote in a tweet in early January.
The prestigious Institute of Political Studies in the French capital, Paris, Sciences Po, was the first major European university to try to tackle this new artificial intelligence tool. In late January, it banned its students from using ChatGBT in their research, whether written or oral, under penalty of expulsion.
Pape Ndiaye, the French Minister of Education, called for broader measures to be taken, and he announced Thursday on France Inter radio that “it will be necessary to intervene in this matter, and we are in the process of discussing the best way to intervene,” adding, “It is clear that we may have an opponent in this regard, but we must In all cases, the adoption of these new data in the work of students and teachers.
But he considered that the texts generated by artificial intelligence are “very different from those that students can write, and teachers are able to distinguish the difference.”
– paper and pen
In four of Australia’s six states, the use of ChatGBT was banned in mid-December on public school campuses by a “firewall”, and students were prohibited from using the app on their mobile phones.
The largest universities in Australia and a number of American universities intend to increase the examinations that take place in their halls by “paper and pen” or remote monitoring of student screens.
New York City has gone so far as to ban ChatGBT in public schools on all devices, for not contributing to “constructing critical thinking” and for fear of the spread of “plagiarism”. Schools in Seattle and Los Angeles also made a similar decision.
In India, the RV University in Bangalore banned the program from its campus and conducted more unannounced tests.
In Britain, the Examinations Office plans to draw up a charter for schools. A member of parliament caused a stir in December when he read a speech written on chat GBT “in the style of Churchill”.
And at the University of Strasbourg in France, nearly twenty students used this tool to cheat during a remote exam, so they were forced to take a new exam in attendance.
In early February, the US science journals Science and Nature warned that they would no longer accept ChatGPT as an author, and asked researchers who use it to do so.
– calculator
The International Conference on Machine Learning held in January in the US rejected ChatGPT’s presentations, except for those on which it is the subject.
In the face of this emerging resistance against the program, “Open IA” recently announced a program that helps distinguish between text written by “Chat GPT” and text written by a person, but the company itself acknowledged that it is still “not fully reliable” at present.
Supporters of the “ChatGPT” tool, such as Sebastien Bobek, a researcher in the field of machine learning at “Microsoft”, criticized these “short-sighted” reactions and wrote in a tweet on Twitter, “ChatGPT is part of the future, and banning is not the solution.” .
Many critics of banning the program also recalled the measures that were initially taken against calculators or Wikipedia in schools, before they were eventually abandoned. Among these critics is Martin Hilbert, deputy dean of the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, who preferred to organize a discussion after handing over an assignment, adding, explaining to the Swiss press, “We will see clearly if the student masters the subject.”
The researcher at Sciences Po, Bernardino Leon, also defended artificial intelligence, in an article published by the French newspaper Le Monde on Friday, stressing that this field can contribute to creativity.
He pointed out that “when calculators are used in education, a development is recorded in the students’ abilities to perform mathematical operations and solve mathematical problems.”
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