• A chatbot powered by reams of passed exams at a US law school.
• ChatGPT from OpenAI received a large investment from Microsoft this week.
• It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate text streams from simple cues.

(AFP) – Aris, Greece -After composing essays on themes ranging from constitutional law to taxation and torts, a chatbot powered by reams of data from the internet passed exams at a US law school.

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ChatGPT from OpenAI, a US business that received a large investment from Microsoft this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate text streams from simple cues.

The findings have been so good that educators have cautioned that widespread cheating may ensue and that traditional classroom teaching methods may be phased out.

Jonathan Choi, a professor at Minnesota University Law School, administered the same test to ChatGPT, which included 95 multiple-choice questions and 12 essay questions.

He and his coauthors revealed that the bot received a C+ overall in a white paper titled “ChatGPT goes to law school,” which was published on Monday.

While this was sufficient for a pass, the bot was near the bottom of the class in most topics and “bombed” at multiple-choice math questions.

“Not a great student.”

“In writing essays, ChatGPT displayed a strong grasp of basic legal rules and had consistently solid organization and composition,” the authors wrote.

But the bot “often struggled to spot issues when given an open-ended prompt, a core skill on law school exams.”

ChatGPT has been outlawed in schools in New York and other places, but Choi believes it might be a useful teaching tool.

“Overall, ChatGPT was not a terrific law student acting alone,” he tweeted.

“But we expect that, when collaborating with humans, language models like ChatGPT would be very useful to law students taking exams and to practicing lawyers.”

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And, dismissing the notion of cheating, he said in response to another Twitter user that two out of three markers had detected the bot-written paper.

“(They) had a hunch, and their instinct was correct, because ChatGPT had great grammar and was rather repetitious,” Choi wrote.