Intelligence artificial: ChatGPT in higher education

ChatGPT looks and functions like a chatbot, where an algorithm produces text based on a prompt put in by the user. Chatbots are driven by technology called large language models, or LLM, which learn to produce writing by analyzing immense amounts of text. But calling ChatGPT a chatbot is like calling a Ferrari a vehicle. While technically true, ChatGPT vastly outstrips its predecessors of the past several decades in its impressive ability to produce lucid, compelling language on any subject almost instantly. From tone to topic and even meter, ChatGPT can produce language indistinguishable from human writing limited only by the imagination of its prompts.