ChatGPT: Boon or Bane for Students?

Advanced artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT have unprecedented capabilities to provide detailed and well-articulated answers to most of the questions. With technological advancement, its capabilities have increased manifold, makes it very popular among students. Anyone can use this platform for their assignments and projects, raising questions about the lack of any critical thinking and creativity in students’ assignments. However, supporters of ChatGPT have argued that students have the option to use such an advanced platform to assist or aid their critical thinking skills. These technologies not only have the power to provide knowledge to every student at their fingertips but also have the curse to kill students’ critical thinking, creativity, and imagination. So, should we support the use of ChatGPT or completely ban its use among students? If everything is available at our fingertips, do we need teachers at all? If yes, then has the role of teachers significantly reduced with the easy availability of such chatbots?

ChatGPT is an advanced artificial intelligence chatbot which provides a human-like conversation experience to the user. The users can cross-question ChatGPT, and it will provide a detailed and well-articulated answer to all the questions. Like humans, it can also accept its mistakes and deny inappropriate requests. Its human-like ability to write a well-articulated and detailed answer to questions has made it very popular among students. Unlike Google Search, wherein students need to go through many websites for answers, ChatGPT writes everything in one go like a knowledgeable human in that field would have done. So, it saves a lot of time and effort, and its free-of-cost availability makes it very popular among students.