BBC 英语学习 News Review 人工智能考试作弊

Will artificial intelligence leads to arise in exam cheating?

This is news review from BBC Learning English.

I'm Beth, and I'm Phil. Make sure you watch to the end to learn all the vocabulary you need to talk about this

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Now, today's story could cheating in exams be about to get easier?

Artificial intelligence apps like Chat, gp T are capable of generating human like text.

Teachers and academics are worried that this might make it impossible to tell whether a text was written by a student or a computer.

Some experts say this could be a positive development.

You've been looking at the headlines, what's the vocabulary?

We've got fueling, desperate for and the dark ages.

This is news review from BBC Learning English.

Let's have a look at our 1st headline.

Yes, this one is from City A-M use of AI apps is fueling plagiarism.

As Barrister warns, more needs to be done to stop online exam Cheetah so Ai.

That's artificial intelligence. Apps are allowing plagiarism.

That's type of cheating, according to a barrister, which is a type of lawyer.

But we are looking at fueling.

Now, phil, I know this word fuel.

I put it in my car.

What? Yes, I'm sure you do, because fuel, as an noun, is what you put in a car.

If you don't put fuel in, it won't go anywhere.

But this headline used it as a verb.

And what it means by this is that these apps are making plagiarism easier.

Yes, that's right Now. Fuel can also mean to encourage.

So if you do something you enjoy, then you fuel your passion for it if you keep doing it, yes.

And if a famous person talks about their relationship, they might fuel speculation about their personal life.

That's true. Well, we hope that we are fueling your passion for learning English.

Let's look at that again. Let's have our next headline.

Okay? This one is from The Mirror.

Teachers desperate for help over AI chatbot writing entire essays for cheating students.

So teachers in the UK are worried that AI is going to write whole essays for students.

That's definitely cheating. But we are looking at the word desperate, OK?

We've got it here in the phrase desperate for help, which is very common.

And if you're desperate for something, it means that you really badly want or need something.

Now, in the context of this story, it means that teachers really, really want help knowing how to deal with students using Yeah.

And there are lots of things that you can be desperate for, so, e.g., if you are really thirsty, then you're desperate for water.

If you are very ambitious, then you might be desperate for a chance to show what you can do.

No, desperate on its own, has a slightly different meaning.

If you're in a desperate situation, it means you're in a situation that's really bad.

Yeah, so you can be desperate for something, but if you are just desperate on its own, then this is quite negative.

OK, let's look at that again.

Next headline, please. Yes, this one is from the Financial Times.

Chat GPT will force school exams out of the dark ages.

So the writer of this story thinks that, chap GPT, that a type of AI will force the education system to improve how exams work.

Now, we're looking at the phrase the Dark Ages.

Now, phil I've been doing some research, and it seems that the Dark Ages were the period of time between the 6th and 10th century.

So that's over a thousand years ago.

Why are we talking about it now?

Well, you're not wrong.

That's the literal meaning, but here it's an exaggeration.

When we force

something out of the dark Ages, it doesn't mean that it's over a thousand years old.

It means that it's very out of date, and we want to bring it up to date.

Okay, so here it's suggesting that

the exam system is out of date, and this AI is going to force it to update.

Yes. And we can also use dark ages if we're talking about someone's attitude.

If you say that someone's attitudes are out of the dark ages, then it means you think their opinions are very old fashioned.

Yeah? And when we use it in this way, it's quite negative, isn't it?

OK, let's look at that again.

We've had fueling, making something happen.

Desperate for you badly need something The dark ages, something is old fashioned.

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