Schools in New York have banned the use of a popular chatbot: it performs students' homework very well

ChatGPT is a new OpenAI chatbot that generates extremely human-like text. It will no longer be available for use in New York educational institutions due to "concerns about the negative impact on learning." The edition told in more detail ITC.

The New York City Department of Education has banned access to ChatGPT from devices and internet networks owned by it. Individual institutions may submit a request for access only to study artificial intelligence and technology-related education.

“Due to concerns about the negative impact on student learning, as well as concerns about the security and truthfulness of content, access to ChatGPT is limited. While this tool can provide quick and simple answers to questions, it does not build the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important for academic and lifelong success,” said Jenna Lyle, spokeswoman for the Department of Education.

ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence lab that was launched a few years ago with the financial support of Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs.

While chatbots are not a new technology, ChatGPT took social media by storm at the end of 2022. Then they said that the bot is better than the Google search engine due to its conversational style of speech and the coherent, relevant nature of the answers, writes NBC News.

The bot is powered by a “large language model,” artificial intelligence software that has been trained to predict the next word in a sentence by analyzing huge amounts of Internet text and finding patterns through trial and error.

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ChatGPT has been improved by people to make it more realistic. Many noted his ability to create humorous or philosophical texts. However, since November 2022, when the chatbot became available to the public, it has generated a lot of discussion and concern due to the increased use of artificial intelligence systems in the creative industries.

Impact on education

The New York City Department of Education's decision to ban the bot came amid discussions about the impact of ChatGPT on education. Otherwise, students will use it to create homework, solve math equations, and write essays.

Experts acknowledged that chatbots like ChatGPT could harm education in the future, but some said they weren't ready to sound the alarm just yet.

Those working in both education and artificial intelligence believe that institutions need to find ways to integrate chatbots like ChatGPT into their curricula, rather than ban them altogether.

“There has always been a fear that technology will do away with what people do best. And the reality is that they had to learn how to use these technologies to improve what they do best,” said Lauren Klein, an assistant professor at Emory University.

Many compare chatbots to advances in technology such as the calculator, which was condemned as the death of math until educators began using it to improve their classroom work. Some have confirmed that several computer-based writing tools such as Grammarly or Google Docs Smart Compose already exist and are currently being used in academia.

In December, Stack Overflow (a popular Q&A website for professional programmers and enthusiasts) banned it for providing incorrect answers to programming questions. Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted last month that "you can't rely on him for anything important."

Is it possible to distinguish

At the same time, some teachers are “almost in a panic” because the technology allows students to pass off problems solved by the bot as their own. The New York Times recently showed writers and educators samples of ChatGPT alongside students, and none of them could tell the difference between the bot and the human.

But experts predicted that someone would likely create technology to determine if an essay was written by ChatGPT. And those predictions turned out to be correct.

Edward Tian, ​​a computer science student at Princeton University, tweeted that he had spent the holidays building a tool to determine whether a piece of text was generated by a human or artificial intelligence.

“AI text generation is like opening a Pandora's box. This is an incredibly exciting innovation, but with any new technology, we need to create security measures in order to use it responsibly,” Tian said.

In subsequent tweets, he shared a video of the program in action. In one video, he showed how his GPTZero bot recognizes not only human text, but also AI text. In one video, he put text from a New Yorker article into GPTZero. The bot then stated that the text was “most likely human-made!”

“It is important to consider the potential risks and benefits of using ChatGPT in education and weigh the evidence carefully before making decisions. It is important to listen to the points of view and concerns of all stakeholders, including teachers, students and parents, in order to make informed and fair decisions,” ChatGPT noted.

The new AI tool from OpenAI can also be used as a potential new model for online search: a chatbot can easily answer complex questions with detailed answers right away. Whereas users looking for information on Google must crawl the pages with results in detail until they find the option they need. Microsoft has already decided to take advantage of the chatbot and plans to launch a version of its Bing search engine from March 2023 that will use ChatGPT to provide answers.