Column by Dr. Richard Sternberg

Is It Live, or Is It Memorex?

One of the hottest advances in technology is the development of an artificial intelligence product called ChatGPT. Its basic program is available free on the Internet. It is causing an uproar in academia because students are using it to write their homework assignments. This is already a game changer for teachers in figuring out how to evaluate student’s performances.

ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research lab. The model is built using the transformer architecture, a neural network designed to process sequential data such as text.