AI, do my homework! How ChatGPT pitted teachers against tech

A group of Australian universities said they would change exam formats to banish AI tools, regarding them as straight-up cheating. — Bloomberg

PARIS: Know-it-all chatbots landed with a bang last year, convincing one engineer that machines had become sentient, spreading panic that industries could be wiped out, and creating fear of a cheating epidemic in schools and universities.

Alarm among educators has reached fever pitch in recent weeks over ChatGPT, an easy-to-use artificial intelligence tool trained on billions of words and a ton of data from the web.