Thanks to ChatGPT, you could cheat your way to becoming a lawyer

Remember all those endless hours spent revising back in your school days? Did you ever wish there was some magical robot that could just sit the exam for you? Well, thanks to ChatGPT and scarily ever-improving Artificial Intelligence software, that may now be a reality for the next generation of school kids looking to exploit the system. 

ChatGPT, The powerful new AI chatbot tool, recently passed law exams in four courses at the University of Minnesota and another exam at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, according to professors at the schools.

To test how well ChatGPT could generate answers on exams for the four courses, professors at the University of Minnesota Law School recently graded the tests blindly. After completing 95 multiple-choice questions and 12 essay questions, the bot performed on average at the level of a C+ student, achieving a low but passing grade in all four courses.

ChatGPT fared better during a business management course exam at Wharton, earning a B to B- grade. In a paper detailing the performance, Christian Terwiesch, a Wharton business professor, said ChatGPT did “an amazing job” at answering basic operations management and process-analysis questions but struggled with more advanced prompts and made “surprising mistakes” with basic math. “These mistakes can be massive in magnitude,” he wrote.

The test results come as a growing number of schools and teachers express concerns about the impact of ChatGPT on students and their ability to cheat on assignments. Some educators are now moving to rethink their assignments in response to ChatGPT, even as it remains unclear how widespread use is of the tool among students and how harmful it could really be to learning.