{"id":22475,"date":"2023-01-12T08:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=22475"},"modified":"2023-01-20T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:24:49","slug":"does-artificial-intelligence-help-students-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/does-artificial-intelligence-help-students-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Does artificial intelligence help students cheat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University makes the headlines again amid growing concern over ChatGPT, artificial intelligence software that allows students to spit out papers and essays in seconds with just a few prompts. Nikki Battiste of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/does-artificial-intelligence-help-students-cheat\/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h\">CBS News<\/a> takes a look at how it works and checks in with Furman&#8217;s Darren Hick, an assistant professor of philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Among the first to raise a red flag over ChatGPT&#8217;s possible use in classrooms, Hick told CBS that he was 99% sure a paper written by one of his philosophy students was actually written by AI after he ran it through detection software. &#8220;This was a very well written essay,&#8221; Hick said. &#8220;But the things that they said were just thoroughly wrong.&#8221; Eventually, the student admitted to using ChatGPT for the assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge for educators is detection. With machine learning, as in ChatGPT, the tools become increasingly more sophisticated over time and better able to hide their non-human qualities, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of CBS affiliate stations across the county aired the story, including major markets <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=760&amp;DateTime=1%2F16%2F2023+3%3A53%3A41+AM&amp;Term=Furman+University&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WGCL-ATL<\/a> (Atlanta); <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=160&amp;DateTime=1%2F16%2F2023+3%3A53%3A33+AM&amp;Term=Furman+University&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WCBS-NY<\/a> (New York<a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=160&amp;DateTime=1%2F16%2F2023+3%3A53%3A33+AM&amp;Term=Furman+University&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">)<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=1880&amp;DateTime=1%2F16%2F2023+2%3A53%3A47+AM&amp;Term=Furman+University&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">KMOV-STL<\/a> (St. Louis); and <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=4545&amp;DateTime=1%2F16%2F2023+2%3A53%3A32+AM&amp;Term=Furman+University&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">KOLD<\/a> (Tucson).<\/p>\n<p>In a related story appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/business\/article270952057.html\">The News and Observer<\/a>, Hick said programs to ferret out bot-written papers are out there, but they do little toward proving AI plagiarism. \u201c[The technology] provides a mountain of circumstantial evidence, but that\u2019s all it is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Furman was also mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/biz.crast.net\/chatgpt-in-schools-heres-where-its-banned-and-how-it-could-potentially-help-students\/\">Business News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/work-and-careers\/education\/how-teachers-are-tackling-the-chatbot-cheats-20230117-p5cd2l\">Australian Financial Review<\/a> (subscription required), <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chatgpt\">Economic Times<\/a> (India Times), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2023\/01\/19\/chatgpt-is-it-possible-to-detect-ai-generated-text\">Euronews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid news of pending investment in ChatGPT by Microsoft, and a move by NYC public schools to ban the AI technology on its networks and devices, Furman&#8217;s Darren Hick lands in the headlines again. He speaks to CBS and The News and Observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1815,1814,1792,1817,1816,6,1802,1803,35,36,1793,1801,1800],"tags":[1754,1755,1779,1764],"class_list":["post-22475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australian-financial-review","category-business-news","category-cbs-news","category-economic-times-india-times","category-euronews","category-in-the-news","category-kmov-stl","category-kold","category-parent-news","category-philosophy","category-the-news-and-observer","category-wcbs-ny","category-wgcl-atl","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatbot","tag-chatgpt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}