Universities will have new technology to detect whether students are inappropriately using an Artificial Intelligence chatbot called ChatGPT, which is taking the world by storm.

There are concerns students could use the platform to cheat, write essays and the like, with just a simple instruction.

Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President of Education at QUT, Robins Xavier explained how it works.

“It is a generative artificial intelligence platform, as you said you can ask it to write you something and it has been learning by looking at hundreds of billions of words over its development … it tries to answer the question or prompt that you have asked,” she told Neil Breen.

“So potentially it can be used to cheat with, but it doesn’t do everything.”

She said the makers of ChatGPT are developing a detection tool for the education sector.

QUT students will be coached on the “appropriate use” of artificial intelligence, as well as its limitations.

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