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For this study, 350 university students in Germany were surveyed to understand how they perceive ChatGPT's educational advantages and challenges. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, it found out that students tend to see ChatGPT as helpful for academic performance (53.14%), writing (47.14%), and exam preparation (50.00%). Nonetheless, a large majority of people expressed doubt regarding its ability to understand queries (61.72%), reliability (52.29%), privacy (52.57%), bias (47.43%), security (55.14%) and displaced jobs (56.29%). These concerns were reinforced by open ended responses, which showed that attitudes towards АТ can be based on factors such as a person's digital literacy and their experience with AI. In the study, the researchers propose a need to incorporate Al education into curricula in order to teach students to critically assess Al- generated content and to identify biases. Moreover, it suggests setting ethical standards that АТ systems need to meet such as accuracy, security, and transparency. Perspectives between cultures vary, and require the teacher to conduct more global research, and approach teaching context specifically. The overarching goal is to promote the thoughtful, ethical, and context-aware integration of Al into educational practices worldwide.
Keywords: artificial intelligence; ChatGPT; education; perceptions of AI in education
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Introduction
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered natural language processing (NLP) platform that lets users interact with the chatbot in a human-like manner and carry out a variety of tasks. According to Ortiz (2023) the language model may respond to inquiries and help with assignments like emails, essays, and coding. As the industry's next major disruptor, ChatGPT can produce information in concise, understandable words and come up with original ideas for blog posts and business plans (Ortiz, 2023). Three of ChatGPT's primary features have been determined. The model can (1) generate dialogues, which are natural language responses in conversational contexts covering a wide range of topics; (2) answer questions on a variety of topics in a conversational format; and (3) generate texts in particular genres or styles (Rudolph et al., 2023). Five days after its initial debut, ChatGPT had one million users (OpenAl et al., 2023; see Figure 1). High user traffic occasionally caused error warnings during development, which aided in continuous enhancements (Rudolph et al., 2023). ChatGPT had 100...