Antony Aumann, a religious studies and philosophy professor at Northern Michigan University, told Insider he had caught two students submitting essays written by the AI chatbot ChatGPT.
"The red flag was that the essay was written better than most of my students can write. The grammar was too perfect, the structure was too sound, and the ideas were kind of too advanced for what I would expect from my students.” Aumann said in an interview, “So, what I did was, I took that essay and submitted it to ChatGPT, and I asked it, 'Hey, did you write this?' It replied that there was a 99.9 percent chance that it did."
A few weeks after the launch of ChatGPT, Darren Hick, a philosophy professor at Furman University, said he caught a student turning in an AI-generated essay.
Hick said he grew suspicious when the student turned in an on-topic essay that included some well-written misinformation.
After running it through Open AI's ChatGPT detector, the results said it was 99% likely the essay had been AI-generated.
Both Hick and Aumann said they confronted their students, all of whom eventually confessed to the infraction. Hick's student failed the class and Aumann had his students rewrite the essays from scratch.
It's not just Aumann struggling with the rise of AI chatbots like ChatGPT. As a result of these tools becoming accessible to pretty much anybody with an internet connection, education departments across the entire country are adjusting workflows and redesigning entire courses, according to the NYT, forcing students to submit handwritten essays or introducing oral exams.
"I think the sentiment behind the ban is reasonable," Aumann said. "They want to make sure that their students are learning the critical thinking skills that are part of learning how to write."
But universities aren't likely to follow suit. After all, skirting around these restrictions is trivially easy.Even tools designed to assist teachers in catching students secretly making use of AI tools like ChatGPT will likely be of little use.
"Students can change a few words from what ChatGPT produced, introduce some grammatical infelicities, and the detectors no longer think it's written by a chatbot," Aumannsaid. "Will these detectors also improve with time? Yes. But probably not enough to keep pace with the development of the chatbots themselves."
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奧曼教授還認(rèn)為,隨著ChatGPT的發(fā)布,木已成舟(the cat is already out of the bag),所以在課堂上與ChatGPT對(duì)抗是毫無(wú)意義的。
Besides, the cat is already out of the bag — so it'd be pointless to fight ChatGPT in the classroom, the professor argued.
"Students will have access to it the second they graduate," he said. "Plus, students already lament that there is a big gulf between 'real life' and 'academia.'"
"So, ignoring ChatGPT or just trying to prevent its use is a big mistake, in my mind," Aumann concluded.
對(duì)奧曼教授來(lái)說(shuō),他已經(jīng)決定調(diào)整自己的論文寫(xiě)作課程,要求學(xué)生在課堂上用正在被實(shí)時(shí)監(jiān)控(actively monitored)的電腦來(lái)寫(xiě)作初稿。他還計(jì)劃鼓勵(lì)他的哲學(xué)系學(xué)生“像對(duì)待其他哲學(xué)資源一樣對(duì)待ChatGPT”,這意味著他們將被要求評(píng)估其論據(jù)和論點(diǎn)(reasons and arguments)。
For his part, Aumann has decided to adjust his own essay writing course, and will require drafts to be written in the classroom on computers that are being actively monitored.
He's planning on encouraging his philosophy students to "react to ChatGPT in the same way they would any other philosophical source," meaning that they will be asked to evaluate its reasons and arguments.
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