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November 3rd, 2023 – Page 4
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AI in Education: The Future is Now

Artificial intelligence, academics and how Gonzaga is handling the new technology.

Tech company OpenAI released its ChatGPT tool at the end of November 2022, and it took only a couple of weeks for Gonzaga professors to notice students had quickly adopted the program that miraculously seemed capable of “writing” essays.

Justin Marquis remembers one professor mentioning that some papers she’d received for an assignment seemed odd. The papers were a little too perfect. Perfect grammar. Perfect spelling. Perfect Spanish usage. Perfect to a degree that just doesn’t happen at the undergraduate level, or even among graduate students. And each of the essays had the same structure: five paragraphs, the last one beginning with the words “in conclusion.”

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