Universities around the world – and in South Africa – are having an identity crisis, and generative AI is the trigger.
More than three years after ChatGPT walked into the lecture hall, the debate has moved well past cheating. In a recent piece in New York magazine, a Columbia undergraduate boasted of using AI to write most of his essays; in The New Yorker, the critic Hua Hsu asked, “What happens after AI destroys college writing?” What does a degree certify when a chatbot can produce a competent essay in seconds?
South Africa’s universities are not watching from the touchline – far from it. Detailed responses to TechCentral from North-West University (NWU), the University of Pretoria…
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