ChatGPT was created by US firm OpenAI. The app uses artificial intelligence to generate streams of text from simple prompts. The results have been so good that some educators have warned that it could lead to widespread cheating by students, potentially even signalling the end of traditional classroom teaching methods.
Jonathan Choi, a professor at Minnesota University Law School, gave ChatGPT the same test faced by students, consisting of 95 multiple-choice questions and 12 essay questions.
In a white paper titled 'ChatGPT goes to law school', published earlier this week, Choi and his co authors reported that the bot scored an overall grade of C+.
While this was sufficient for a pass, the bot was near the bottom of the class in most subjects and "bombed" at multiple-choice questions involving mathematics.
"In writing essays, ChatGPT displayed a strong grasp of basic legal rules and had consistently solid organisation and composition...