Exploring the opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in academia

Abstract

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) natural language model ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), often referred to as ChatGPT-4, has a wide range of possible uses in the fields of research, business, academia, health, and similar fields. This language model can accomplish a number of academic jobs that were previously completed by people, taking a significant amount of time and effort. The purpose of the article is to investigate ChatGPT’s potential opportunities and challenges in academia. To attain this objective, a review of relevant literature and online resources (news, articles, etc.) was carried out. The noticing-collecting-thinking approach was adopted to explore and categorize all observed concerns. The outcome of this study reveals that research, education, personal skill development, and social aspects constitute the four broad perspectives that articulate the opportunities and constraints of ChatGPT in academia. For instance, from the education perspective, ChatGPT can help students have a personalized learning experience. On the other hand, it might provide false information as well as lack the ability to generate responses on its own because those responses depend on training datasets, which may contain errors. Similarly, from the point of view of the personal skill development, this model may impair a person’s capacity for critical thought and content production; while providing reading and writing practice sessions and relevant content, it can improve a person’s language proficiency.

Impact of teacher training in computational thinking on educational innovation and use of Artificial Intelligence

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Impact of teacher training in computational thinking on educational innovation and use of Artificial Intelligence

“…These models store and use user information to learn and improve user support. The implementation of Artificial Intelligence can have a very positive impact in the academic world and in teacher training (Islam & Islam, 2024). Some limitations point to the methodology adopted for the analysis and understanding of the data, which due to its qualitative nature depends mainly on the skills and experiences of the analyst or researcher (Cooper, 2023).…”

Usage and Knowledge of Online Tools and Generative AI: A Survey of Students

“…University students seem to have widely embraced ChatGPT, forcing educators to respond in a variety of ways: acceptance and rethinking of learning activities, rejection and vigilance towards students using ChatGPT, and general panic over academic dishonesty ( Črček & Patekar, 2023). (Kiryakova & Angelova, 2023) presented a survey to university professors at Trakia University and found more concerns from faculty members that learners will unquestioningly accept the output from ChatGPT to be correct especially when ChatGPT has a tendency to be incorrect (Islam & Islam, 2024;Rawte et al, 2023). However, the university professors also showed a positive outlook while using ChatGPT towards their teaching e.g., to provoke interest in the subject, stimulate critical thinking, etc (Kiryakova & Angelova, 2023).…”