Opinion poll
Pupils, trainees and students use AI for homework
Write it yourself or have it written? AI can make homework at university a lot easier. photo
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Artificial intelligence has arrived in everyday education. Evidence of this is provided by a survey of people between the ages of 16 and 26 who are either in training, studying or at school.
Around a year after the hype surrounding ChatGPT began, according to a survey, tools like this have arrived in the everyday educational lives of many young people. 68 percent of schoolchildren, trainees and students have already consciously used ChatGPT or similar tools based on artificial intelligence (AI) for homework or coursework, like a YouGov study.Survey conducted on behalf of the mobile phone provider “congstar” and the company “share” revealed.
11 percent use AI programs for homework and coursework regularly, 32 percent sometimes, 25 percent rarely. 29 percent said they would not do this.
The survey was available to the German Press Agency. Between September 25th and October 4th, 702 people between the ages of 16 and 26 who were either in training, studying or still at school were representatively surveyed.
The chat robot ChatGPT from the Californian start-up OpenAI has been available free of charge since November 2022. In just a few weeks, the number of users had skyrocketed to over 100 million. With the help of AI, ChatGPT can answer questions from a wide range of topics or even write entire essays. There is increasing discussion about how technology will impact education in the long term.