While ChatGPT fever has swept through youth all over the world, the AI agent in Bengaluru may get you into trouble. Bengaluru’s private universities are starting to take action against ChatGPT, which has become popular among the student population.
An open-source platform called ChatGPT, created by OpenAI and released in November 2022, can expertly produce papers, articles, and essays in response to a brief instruction. And anyone with an internet connection can use this service for free.
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According to OpenAI’s description, ChatGPT can answer ‘follow-up questions’, and can also ‘admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.’ It is based on the GPT 3.5 series of language learning models from the company (LLM). Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT) is a type of computer language model that uses deep learning strategies to generate text that matches human text based on inputs.
Educational institutions, who think that students may simply submit their assignments with the help of ChatGPT, are concerned due to the platform’s nature.
As a result, universities in Karnataka are developing their own policies and holding review sessions on the responsible use of the ChatGPT platform so as not to compromise with students’ academic performance and creative expression.
In fact, on January 1, R V University became one of the early education institutions to create a policy relating to the “fair use of AI Agents.”
Dr. Sanjay Chitnis, dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering, emphasised that when original submission is required from students or faculty, such as code in the first-year programming course or original essays, answers to questions, etc., AI agents like ChatGPT, GitHub copilot, or blackbox should not be used.
The ban will be enforced, according to the university, “by blocking these sites during lab and tutorial sessions and conducting random checks by requesting students to copy the text.” Action will be imposed if a large difference is found.
However, it allows the “fair use” of AI agents where the students’ writing or coding skill is not being assessed but rather their ability to formulate problems, ask smart questions, and offer original or creative answers.
After a review meeting this week, Dr. M. D. Venkatesh, Vice-Chancellor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education-MAHE, is anticipated to develop a policy in another 10 days.
”We will have a review meeting and come up with a policy soon that looks at the implications of such AI tools, analyse the weightage of assignments, analyse the extent of use of ChatGPT among students and other things. AI agents have implications in the higher education system and we will have to take a critical look at it. We will conduct an internal assessment including talking to the students and find out how assessment of assignments can be made objective and look at the impact of ChatGPT on this,” said Venkatesh.
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