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Exploring the opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in academia

Abstract The Artificial Intelligence (AI) natural language model ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), often referred to as ChatGPT-4, has a wide range of possible uses in the fields of research, business, academia, health, and similar fields. This language model can accomplish a number of academic jobs that were previously completed by people, taking a significant amount of time and effort. The purpose of the article is to investigate ChatGPT’s potential opportunities and challenges in academia. To…

Education · The Trace — both readings · certified 2026-07-20 · v1 · article view · machine-readable

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In academia, ChatGPT can provide students a personalized learning experience and improve language proficiency through reading and writing practice.

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In academia, the same ChatGPT use for personal skill development may impair a person's capacity for critical thought and content production and provide false information tied to training dataset errors.

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