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Can ChatGPT get an engineering degree? Evaluating higher education's vulnerability to AI assistants
Could ChatGPT get an Engineering Degree? Evaluating Higher Education Vulnerability to AI Assistants
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Researchers tested how many university course assessments GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 could complete, collecting text-based exam questions from 50 STEM courses at EPFL and generating answers using 8 prompting strategies. Results showed that GPT-4 answered an average of 65.8% of questions correctly, and under at least one prompting strategy could give correct answers to 85.1% of questions. Grouped by degree program, these systems could already pass the non-project assessments of a large number of core courses across multiple degree programs. The authors say that as model capabilities improve, students' use of generative AI will amplify the risks to higher education accreditation, and they call for redesigning assessments at the program level.