It's systems that can perform tasks that would require human-like intelligence. If you gave a person AI and human, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I think with chat GPT, you could give someone something it had written and say, do you think a human wrote this? And they would say, oh, certainly. So they passed this to the test, I think.
Cynthia Alby discusses how artificial intelligence (like ChatGPT) is impacting higher education on episode 448 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If AI can do it well, it is possible that we could hand things over to AI that would allow us to do other things that we wouldn’t have had time to do.
-Cynthia Alby
When students are doing work that matters to them, they don’t turn to AI for anything other than a little help.
-Cynthia Alby
How can we ask students to do things that are worth doing?
-Cynthia Alby