ChatGPT has become the ‘best teammate’ to these Sydney university students – but is there a limit?

Universities are pivoting to incorporate generative AI into academic life - without the plagiarism - in the belief it will become an intrinsic part of life and work

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Third-year student Jack Quinlan was confident he knew what I was going to ask before we conducted our interview. He wasn't psychic, and I hadn't fed him questions - he'd just done a trial run on ChatGPT.

Prior to our meeting, the software engineering and neuroscience undergraduate logged on to the program to generate the kinds of questions a professional journalist at the Guardian" would ask a student about artificial intelligence at universities.

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