Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reinventing education while making finding out more available but likewise sparking debates on its impact.
While students hail AI tools like ChatGPT for enhancing their knowing experience, speakers are raising concerns about the growing reliance on AI, which they argue fosters laziness and weakens scholastic stability, particularly with numerous trainees unable to protect their assignments or given works.
Prof. Isaac Nwaogwugwu, a lecturer at the University of Lagos, in an interview with Nairametrics, revealed frustration over the growing dependence on AI-generated actions amongst trainees stating a current experience he had.
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"I provided a task to my MBA students, and out of over 100 students, about 40% submitted the specific same answers. These students did not even understand each other, however they all utilized the same AI tool to produce their actions," he stated.
He kept in mind that this trend is prevalent amongst both undergraduate and postgraduate students however is especially worrying in part-time and distance learning programs.
"AI is a serious obstacle when it concerns assignments. Many students no longer think critically-they just go online, generate answers, and send," he included.
Surprisingly, some speakers are also implicated of over-relying on AI, setting a cycle where both teachers and students turn to AI for benefit instead of intellectual rigor.
This argument raises important questions about the role of AI in scholastic stability and trainee advancement.
According to a UNESCO report, while ChatGPT reached 100 million month-to-month active users in January 2023, only one country had launched policies on generative AI since July 2023.
As of December 2024, ChatGPT had over 300 million individuals utilizing the AI chatbot every week and 1 billion messages sent out every day around the globe.
Decline of academic rigor
University lecturers are significantly concerned about trainees submitting AI-generated assignments without genuinely understanding the material.
Dr. Felix Echekoba, a lecturer at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, revealed his issues to Nairametrics about trainees increasingly relying on ChatGPT, just to deal with answering basic concerns when checked.
"Many trainees copy from ChatGPT and submit polished projects, however when asked basic concerns, they go blank. It's disappointing because education is about discovering, not just passing courses," he said.
- Prof. Nwaogwugwu pointed out that the increasing number of top-notch graduates can not be completely associated to AI however confessed that even high-performing students utilize these tools.
"A first-rate trainee is a top-notch trainee, AI or not, but that doesn't imply they do not cheat. The benefits of AI may be peripheral, however it is making students dependent and less analytical," he stated.
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