ChatGPT and Assessment in Higher Education

March 30, 2023

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is an advanced large language model developed by OpenAI. This generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot was trained on massive amounts of text data from the internet using machine learning algorithms. ChatGPT is capable of answering prompts and invites users to interact in a conversational way—it can even answer follow-up questions.

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ChatGPT and Assessment in Higher Education