OpenAI brings ChatGPT to college campuses across the country. On Thursday, the company announced ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built specifically for students, scholars and faculty. “ChatGPT Edu is designed for schools looking to apply AI more broadly to students and their campus communities,” the company said. blog post.
ChatGPT Edu includes access to GPT-4o, the company’s latest major language model from OpenAI revealed earlier this month. OpenAI claims that the model is far superior to its previous versions in interpreting text, coding and math, analyzing datasets and accessing the web. ChatGPT Edu will also have much higher message limits than the free version of ChatGPT and will allow universities to create custom versions of ChatGPT trained on their own data – confusingly called GPTs – and share them in university workspaces. OpenAI claims that conversations and data from ChatGPT Edu will not be used to train OpenAI models.
Despite initially introducing ChatGPT in late 2022 expressed his concerns With concerns about academic integrity and potential abuse in the educational environment, universities are increasingly experimenting with the use of generative artificial intelligence for both teaching and research. OpenAI said it founded ChatGPT Edu after seeing Wharton, Arizona State University and Columbia use ChatGPT Enterprise.
For example, MBA undergraduates at Wharton completed their final reflection assignments by teaching a trained GPT on course materials, while Arizona State University is experimenting with its own GPTs conducting German conversations with language learners.
