OpenAI’s chatbot, dubbed ChatGPT, has been the talk of the town for a couple of months. It’s known for detailed responses on any topic. People use it in various cases: some try to hack systems; others try to pass exams with its help; the third group of users writes code. But as usually happens with an invention, this artificial intelligence module faces many difficulties too.
Recently, we learned that ChatGPT successfully passed exams for MBA and US law and medical licensing. Apart from this, many of my colleagues (professors) have started raising concerns, saying their students use this tool when doing their homework and assignments. So that’s not surprising that many high education institutions in India, French, and US have banned its usage.
The first University in India to ban ChatGPT is Bangalore’s RV University. The policy has already started coming into force from January 1. The initiator of the ban was Sanjay Chitnis, dean of the school of computer science and engineering at RV University.
Apart from ChatGPT, this institution also banned the usage of other AI bots, such as Github Copilot and Blackbox. What’s more important none of the students at the faculty and the college can use them.
To somehow combat ChatGPT, the tutors will also ask students to reproduce contents in order to understand whether the answers are their own or are generated by chatbots. As sanctions, if any student is found guilty of using the AI bots, they will be expelled from the campus.
Many other high education institutions are already planning to act in the same way.
Besides several universities in India, a leading university in France, Sciences Po, has completely banned the usage of ChatGPT. The corresponding statement clearly reads that students can’t use any AI tool for completing any written work or presentations.
