The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One instructor there said he had integrated a custom chatbot into a computer programming class; the majority of 500 students surveyed in 2023, the first year it was offered, said they found it helpful. — SOPHIE PARK/The New York Times
In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture notes from her organisational behaviour class when she noticed something odd. Was that a query to ChatGPT from her professor?
Halfway through the document, which her business professor had made for a lesson on models of leadership, was an instruction to ChatGPT to “expand on all areas. Be more detailed and specific.” It was followed by a list of positive and negative leadership traits, each with a prosaic definition and a bullet-pointed example.
