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AI comes to higher education as OpenAI partners with Arizona State University

The generative AI boom that has been embraced by many enterprises is still lagging when it comes to the broader educational sphere.

Today, Arizona State University announced it has partnered with OpenAI, arguably the leading generative AI company and maker of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3, in a first-of-its-kind alliance to bring the latter’s tech to the former’s institutional processes. In fact, according to U.S. News & World Report, the top degrees awarded by ASU tend to be in “Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services,” at 22% of all graduate majors in 2022, followed by “Engineering” and “Biological and Biomedical Sciences” at 9%. The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 was followed by reports of concerns that students would use the capable chatbot and underlying large language model (LLM) GPT-3.5 (and later GPT-4) to “cheat” or complete assigned coursework meant for them to do unaided by AI, such as write original essays.

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