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Teachers shift gears to avoid A.I. plagiarism As concern over students using A.I. chatbots rises, teachers must prepare to deal with the issue constructively.
OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research laboratory, has recently launched ChatGPT, a text-generating tool open to all for free. This chatbot is capable of understanding and answering questions through prompts, and hence is becoming extremely popular among students. Textbots like ChatGPT can rescue last-minute assignments that can range from writing Shakespearean poetry to doing calculus. As such A.I. gets exploited by students, teachers are looking for ways to detect such plagiarism. “We clearly need to come up with new ways to evaluate learning if we want to avoid these bots to be used to fake student work,” said Bérengère Marin-Dubuard, an A.I. enthusiast and teacher in interactive media arts at Dawson College. Marin-Dubuard also expressed her thoughts on the quality of the text written by the A.I. “The text generated is interesting, but in the end I’d be surprised if many people just don’t do the work,” she said. “It’s probably even more work to set it up.” Marin-Dubuard encour-
the internet,” Cheung added. “The system learns to predict which words are likely to occur together in the same context.”
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ages her class to embrace the new technology as a tool, but she remains wary of the threat of plagiarism. ChatGPT’s technology relies on natural language processing — a subfield of computer science based on the interaction between computers and human language. “One part of how ChatGPT works is by learning complex patterns of language usage using a large amount of data,” said Jackie CK Cheung, an associate computer science professor at McGill University and the Associate Scientific Director at Mila A.I. Institute of Quebec. “Think at the scale of all the text that is on
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explained that the developing A.I. would eventually improve as researchers and users feed it new knowledge, a process known as “deep learning.”
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Protesters at McGill cancel talk by law Music professor with ties to the LGB Alliance The incident sparked debates between the balance of free speech and hate speech on University Campuses BY SIMON FEISTHAUER FOURNET ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
On Tuesday Jan. 10, the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) from McGill University hosted a talk called “The Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate in the United Kingdom and the Divorce of LGB from T.” The event was disrupted by more than 100 protesters due to the presence of controversial guest speaker and McGill alumni Robert Wintemute. Wintemute is a Human Rights Law Professor at King’s College
London and a trustee of the LGB Alliance — an advocacy group funded in the UK that opposes certain policies for transgender rights on the grounds that they undermine those of lesbians, bisexuals and gay men and cisgender women. The protestors occupied the first floor of Chancellor Day Hall and interrupted the professor’s talk by unplugging the projector, which then led to him being escorted out by McGill staff.
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