Last year, we tried letting an AI write an article, which didn’t quite end with results promised by many an AI company. Though one year is a pretty long time when it comes to tech advancement, and now, OpenAI has announced a version of ChatGPT for universities. Fittingly, it’s called ChatGPT Edu.
In a blog post, the company says that this version of its AI chatbot is powered by the latest GPT-4o, revealed earlier this month to be leaps and bounds more capable than versions that have come before. The company says that ChatGPT Edu will have higher message limits than the free version. While it’s ostensibly not a free service, it’s likely up to individual unis to strike a deal with OpenAI to provide access to students or faculty members, or both.
For unis that are really into it, the additional benefit to ChatGPT Edu is that each university can can built their own custom version of GPT, trained on their own data. These can then be shared within the uni workspaces, and of course, there’s the promise of data not being used to train other models by OpenAI.
The company says in the announcement blog post that ChatGPT Edu was conceived following the successful use of ChatGPT Enterprise by a number of US universities, as well as the University of Oxford. Of course, it remains to be seen what will be the result of unis that adopt this, as staff and students balance the curiosity of exploring the new tech frontier and new-age plagiarism.
(Source: OpenAI)
