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Getting creative with ChatGPT, without having to cheat
With ChatGPT, students can get individualized attention, allowing them to learn at their own speed and comprehension level.
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Return to in-person classes: Wearing face masks, students attend a class at PGRI University in Semarang on Sept. 12, 2021. A number of prominent universities have banned the use of ChatGPT for academic purposes. (Tribun Jateng/Mamdukh Adi Priyanto)
ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize both the workplace and the classroom. Debates over students using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to do their assignments are not surprising given the large potential use of chatbots in higher education.
The debates primarily concern the possibility that students may try to pass off the results produced by chatbots like ChatGPT as their own original works. Universities across the world are battling this real issue. Some big universities like Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester have decided to forbid students from using chatbots like ChatGPT for academic purposes.
The policy stances tilt toward conservatism, but when more is learned about the skills, capacities and constraints of ChatGPT, they could be significantly amended, if not entirely reversed. For instance, universities like Heriot-Watt, Glasgow University and University College London are adopting a different strategy. These colleges are creating policies that permit the use of ChatGPT by students under certain conditions.
While ChatGPT may offer a wide range of new opportunities for the use of AI, administrative challenges may put OpenAI's next-generation chatbot in Indonesia in jeopardy. Under Regulation No. 17/2019 on Electronic System and Transaction Operation, the Communications and Information Ministry would have control of ChatGPT for taxation and content regulation.
In this case, OpenAI might be requested to register ChatGPT as an Electronic System Provider (PSE) if it receives income from Indonesian consumers. Although the core ChatGPT functionality is free, OpenAI also provides the ChatGPT Plus option for US$20 per month, which grants customers priority access to new features and faster response times, which is accessible in Indonesia.
On the other hand, there are various opportunities for effective application of ChatGPT in Indonesian higher education institutions. For instance, the use of chatbots as private tutors in the classroom is an apparent prospective use. Due to rising student-staff ratios, it is harder to provide each student with the individualized attention they want.
In some universities, class sizes have reached the hundreds, making it difficult to remember student names, let alone their learning preferences and academic difficulties. With ChatGPT, students can get individualized attention, allowing them to learn at their own speed and comprehension level.
