Could ChatGPT get an Engineering Degree? Evaluating Higher Education Vulnerability to AI Assistants.

This repository provides the dataset and source code used in the study: "Could ChatGPT get an Engineering Degree? Evaluating Higher Education Vulnerability to AI Assistants." [PNAS 2024]

• The dataset is located in the data folder and includes:

  • questions.json: Contains all the questions (and their answers) used in this study.
  • course.json: Provides information about the courses analyzed in this work.
  • grade_per_question.csv: Contains models' grades (gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4) for all questions across six different prompting strategies.
  • README.md: Readme file for more details on the data format.

• The source code is located in the src folder. Each subfolder contains dedicated README files for further details. Key components include:

  src/
  │
  ├── answer_generation/    # Source code for different prompting strategies
  │   ├── chain_of_thought/       # Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting
  │   ├── expert_prompting/      # Expert Prompting
  │   └── few_shot_prompting/     # Few-shot Prompting
  │   └── metacognitive/     # Metacognitive prompting
  │   └── self_refine/     # Self-refine Prompting
  │   └── tree_of_thought/     # Tree-of-Though (ToT) Prompting
  │
  ├── grading/
      ├── grade_open_answer.py.py  # Direct grading of open-ended questions
      └── README.md # Documentation
  
  
  

Licenses:

• The dataset is released under CC-BY-NC-ND license.
• The code is released under CC-BY license.

Citation

@article{doi:10.1073/pnas.2414955121,
    author = {Beatriz Borges and Negar Foroutan and Deniz Bayazit and Anna Sotnikova and Syrielle Montariol  and Tanya Nazaretzky  and Mohammadreza Banaei  and Alireza Sakhaeirad  and Philippe Servant  and Seyed Parsa Neshaei and Jibril Frej and Angelika Romanou  and Gail Weiss  and Sepideh Mamooler  and Zeming Chen  and Simin Fan  and Silin Gao  and Mete Ismayilzada  and Debjit Paul  and Philippe Schwaller  and Sacha Friedli  and Patrick Jermann  and Tanja Käser  and Antoine Bosselut  and EPFL Grader Consortium and EPFL Data Consortium},
    title = {Could ChatGPT get an engineering degree? Evaluating higher education vulnerability to AI assistants},
    journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
    volume = {121},
    number = {49},
    pages = {e2414955121},
    year = {2024},
    doi = {10.1073/pnas.2414955121},
    URL = {https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2414955121},
    eprint = {https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2414955121}
}