A paper published in a professional journal of education this month is actually the work of the AI ​​robot ChatGPT, and it has been reviewed by four scholars.

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[Compilation of Lin Yuxuan/Comprehensive Report] The rise of artificial general intelligence (AGI) will bring earth-shaking changes to the world, far surpassing any invention in history.

A paper, "Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT," published this month in a professional journal of education, describes why AI tools pose many challenges and concerns , especially when it comes to academic integrity and plagiarism.

However, this paper is actually the work produced by the AI ​​robot ChatGPT, and it has been reviewed by 4 scholars and all of them meet the academic standards.

The British Guardian reported on the 19th that Debby Cotton, a professor at Plymouth Marco and St. John University (Plymouth Marjon University), who pretended to be the main author of the paper, said that she hoped to show that ChatGPT’s writing level is very high. It's an arms race." AI technology is developing so fast that universities can't keep up.

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Condon and two colleagues at the University of Plymouth who also claimed to be authors of the paper reported the matter to the editor of the journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International, but four peer-reviewed Scholars believe that this paper was really jointly written by these three scholars.

Universities have been aggressively cracking down on essay mills for years, which sell pre-written essays and other academic work to any student trying to cheat, according to reports.

But now scholars suspect that even paper mills are using ChatGPT.

The Observer newspaper asked schools that said they planned to expel students who used ChatGPT.

Thomas Lancaster, a computer expert and academic integrity researcher at Imperial College London, pointed out that many universities are panicked by this. If there is only a written document in front of them, it may be difficult to prove that it was produced by a machine, because the level of writing of robots It is very high, and its English attainments are usually better than students, and the newly released GPT-4 writing ability is definitely more humane.

Compared with narrower AI, AGI combines artificial intelligence and human cognitive ability, which can liberate human beings from trivial work and usher in a new era of creativity.

ChatGPT, published at the end of last year, can generate papers, poems and computer codes according to instructions, making the dream of AGI one step closer to reality.

The developer OpenAI released a more powerful version of GPT-4 last week, which can produce text, images, and more complex content such as legal complaints or video games, which has reached human performance levels to some extent.

But experts also warn that this major breakthrough may pose a threat to human employment and cause difficult social problems, including the authenticity of creation will be questioned, because songs, images, art, etc. are created by software rather than people. Will humans shy away from education and instead rely on software to think for them?