(2023-01-19) AI Writing Tools Like ChatGPT Are The Future Of Learning - No It's Not Cheating

AI Writing Tools Like ChatGPT Are the Future of Learning & No, It’s Not Cheating. Sally Brandon, a communications lecturer at Melbourne’s Deakin University, applied bot detection technology to 54 essays she marked over summer and found 10 had “significant, detectable bot assistance”.

Brandon’s results sparked concerns over academic integrity and how fair student assessment can be maintained while this technology exists.

But computer science experts, and even the universities themselves, say this technology is only the beginning of a new era of learning.

“I think it’s an increase in human capability moment that we’re looking at right now,” co-director at Deakin University’s Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Phillip Dawson, told VICE.

Dr Cheryl Pope, a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide’s School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, said ChatGPT was great for writing a first draft, but the need for editing and fact-checking by humans was unlikely to be replaced anytime soon.

once you start to think of a chatbot as a tool, rather than a replacement, its possibilities become very exciting. (centaur)

“Getting help requires a lot of social capital. You have to approach someone and that can be uncomfortable. Having someone where you can ask whatever question, [with] no concern about someone else seeing it, whether it’s a silly question, I think there’s a lot of scope there,” Pope said.

On the flip side, this technology could usher in a higher standard, the same way expectations differ for a two-hour written exam vs. an essay you have two months to write.