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ChatGPT: Should we allow its use in university exams?

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Today I tested ChatGPT with a proposition the answer to which  i already know, but has not been clearly stipulated in thermal comfort study (which means you cannot simply google it to arrive at the conclusions). ChatGPT gives the correct answer within 3 seconds. I am impressed! If scholars today focus only on gathering data and forming obvious conclusion, then they are dispensable...😀 We should allow students to use AI apps in exam. Then we have to reform our teaching and assessments to develop new skills and assess them beyond what these tools can do. If we cannot do this, it means our program or even the whole university is dispensable. Looking at the way our curricula and assessments are being developed now, be ready for an unmanned universities, universities without professors and lecturers. Without expensive pay for glorified scholars, They are much cheaper to run, giving the same kind of results We dont expect our graduates NOT to use these tools when the

Pushing back the dark forces of modern ills by reform in architectural education: rambling in group conversation

Discussing whether sustainability should be a niche for an architecture program. After years of  claiming our focus on sustainability, with a certain degree of success, by now sustainibility should be in our DNA already. On another hand, now almost all university programmes has to embed SDG goals. Its a matter of implementing it that its found wanting. If we still put sustainability as our niche, soon it will be like a medical school putting health as its niche, which should be given already. Yes, we should always strive for sustainibility. Perhaps the reason it could not be a niche is  because only a few subjects insist its use. Because we currently understand sustainibility only its technical and environmental dimensions. Whereas current wisdom shows that it is humannes aspectthat make or break sustainable agenda itu berjaya. So i believe if we strive for human dimension, sustainibility will be a strong component in it. Perhaps Its not clear what i meant by humanness. It stems from m