Andrew Perrault, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Ohio State, said ChatGPT’s existence offers clear advantages and disadvantages in the world of academia. Many higher-educational institutions — including Ohio State — have taken steps to define the working relationship students can have with ChatGPT and AI technology at large, university spokesperson Chris Booker said in an email. “I still primarily view [ChatGPT] as a negative, certainly in the context of teaching,” Perrault said. “In the context of research, it potentially enables a lot of really cool projects.”Perrault said ChatGPT is an example of a transformer — a deep neural network. Transformers essentially use a wide range of data inputs from the internet to generate results, meaning it draws on materials already available on the internet to create a “new” product.
