5 Apr 2023

Software engineer suggests universities shut to figure out ChatGPT

From Morning Report, 6:17 am on 5 April 2023

A senior lecturer in software engineering says schools and universities should shut for a month while they figure out how to deal with new Artificial Intelligences such as ChatGPT.

The systems can generate long texts such as essays which are indistinguishable from a human-generated answer.

Simon McCallum from Victoria University told education correspondent John Gerritsen lots of students are using ChatGPT and the implications are huge.