AI, do my homework! Chatbot pits teachers vs tech

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 a 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. It can write a half-decent essay and answer many common classroom questions, sparking a fierce debate about the very future of traditional education. New York City's education department banned ChatGPT on its networks because of "concerns about negative impac...

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