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A cheating Australian student fails a university exam after being caught using an AI chatbot to write an essay; now Australia’s top universities are considering a strange solution to prevent it from happening again
- UNSW Student Fails Exam After Using Chatbot to Cheat
- The best universities held an emergency meeting on the technology
- College can now go back to handwritten essays
An Australian university student has become the first in the country to fail a writing exam for using an artificial intelligence chatbot to cheat.
The student, who is studying at the University of New South Wales, confessed to using OpenAI’s ChatGPT write your essay after a the professor suspected that it was generated by AI.
futuristic technology Released for public use in November 2022, it has already amassed millions of users worldwide and can scan the web in real time to generate eerily human text in response to any question.
Professor of Artificial Intelligence Toby Walsh from the University of NSW said schools and universities are now frantically evaluating how to prevent students from using technology to cheat.
NSW, Queensland and Tasmania have already blocked access to ChatGPT on school internet networks to try to prevent students from taking shortcuts on exam papers and assessments.
Professor Walsh believes that the only answer may be to go back to handwritten essays.
UNSW student failed his course after submitting an exam essay that had been written by a chatbot
“Banning access to websites is totally pointless because kids are smart enough to bypass it: they can use a VPN (virtual private network),” he said. the aussie,.
‘You have to put them in a room with no (internet) access, with pen and paper and no technology.
“We can no longer give students take-home lessons.”
ChatGPT is so sophisticated that it can easily bypass traditional plagiarism checks that have been in place at universities for nearly two decades.
That’s because “every time you run it, you get a different response,” Professor Walsh said.
The launch of ChatGPT has led to “crisis meetings” at one of Australia’s leading universities, with calls for exams and assessments to return to handwritten submissions.
There is concern that chatbots like ChatGPT could make the truth “a much more fungible idea”, and that students could mistake fiction for reality.
‘Crisis meetings’ have recently been called at UNSW and other educational institutes have also held similar meetings to discuss what can be done.
But while the technology raises serious concerns for academia, it also has important advantages.
Australian doctor Dr. Prithvi Santana, who recently graduated from UNSW, has admitted he is both excited and terrified for the future of his profession after using AI to diagnose a ‘patient’ in seconds.
He was experimenting with ChatGPT when it gave him simple medical directions and information that the bot was able to turn into a diagnosis.
Images of a TikTok clip he posted showed the AI listing suggested tests, risk factors, and potential diagnosis in clear, concise bullet points.
The AI was not only able to provide Dr. Santana with life threats and procedures, but also quickly provided a diagnosis for his fictional patient (pictured is Mr. Santana’s TikTok reacting to the AI)