ChatGPT: Bullshit spewer or the end of traditional assessments in higher education?

🤖 Plain-English Summary

ChatGPT is the world’s most advanced chatbot thus far. We conclude the article with recommendations for students, teachers and higher education institutions.

🔑 Key Findings

• Unlike other chatbots, it can create impressive prose within seconds, and it has created much hype and doomsday predictions when it comes to student assessment in higher education and a host of other matters.
• ChatGPT is a advanced language model (a variant of OpenAI’s Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) language model) designed to generate text that can be indistinguishable from text written by humans.
• It can engage in conversation with users in a seemingly natural and intuitive way.

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