Exam cheating with AI: BBC News Review

Some people are worried that advances in AI could lead to a rise in exam cheating. Phil and Beth teach the language around this story to help you use it.
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The story:
Could cheating in exams be about to get easier? Artificial Intelligence apps like ChatGPT 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.

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Key words and phrases:
🔎 fuelling - making or causing something
- The dark winters are really fuelling my passion for staying in and playing video games.
- The bad economic results fuelled worries about the future of the company.

🔎 desperate for - want something badly
- I'm so hungry. I'm desperate for a sandwich.
- Everything feels uncertain. I'm desperate for news of what will happen next.

🔎 dark ages - old-fashioned; from a different period of time
- He dresses like he lives in the dark ages. No-one wears those clothes nowadays.
- Some people's attitudes are out of the dark ages on this issue.

✔️ 0:00 - Introduction
✔️ 0:27 - Story
✔️ 1:25 - Headline 1: Use of AI apps is fuelling plagiarism, as barrister warns more needs to be done to stop online exam cheating - City AM
✔️ 2:57 - Headline 2: Teachers desperate for help over AI chatbot writing entire essays for cheating students - The Mirror
✔️ 4:22 - Headline 3: ChatGPT will force school exams out of the dark ages - The Financial Times
✔️ 5:56 - Language summary

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I think there’s a similar words or phrase that have the same definition of “out of dark ages” in previous episodes. Can someone please tell me what it is. I can’t find it

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