The First and the Last by Jesse H. Reign

In response to intense debate about how models like ChatGPT should factor into education, Wood decided to recruit as many professors as possible to see how the AI fared against actual university accounting students. Since its debut in November 2022, ChatGPT has become the fastest-growing technology platform ever, reaching 100 million users in under two months. So for us, we’re trying to focus on what we can do with this technology now that we couldn’t do before to improve the teaching process for faculty and the learning process for students. “But opportunities to cheat have always existed. “When this technology first came out, everyone was worried that students could now use it to cheat,” said lead study author David Wood, a BYU professor of accounting. The researchers have stated that although ChatGPT still requires improvement in the field of accounting, it has the potential to revolutionize the way people teach and learn, for the better. Hence, they subjected the original ChatGPT model to testing. Specifically, it achieved a score in the 90th percentile on the bar exam, passed 13 out of 15 AP exams, and received a near-perfect score on the GRE Verbal test.Īcademicians from Brigham Young University (BYU) and 186 other institutions were curious about the performance of OpenAI’s technology on accounting exams.

The company claims that the bot, which employs machine learning to produce text in a natural language style, performed exceptionally well on various exams. Last month, OpenAI introduced its latest AI chatbot product, GPT-4. Credit: Nate Edwards/BYU Photo The massive study was crowd-sourced with 327 co-authors from 186 institutions in 14 different countries. In a test of ChatGPT’s ability to handle accounting assessments it still couldn’t compete with the student’s level.

The First and the Last by Jesse H. Reign