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Professor Pippa Petts awarded prestigious teaching fellowship

Professor Pippa Petts, from our Department of Physics, has been awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding contribution to teaching and learning.
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The Death of the Short-Form Physics Essay in the Coming AI Revolution

How smart are the latest AI chatbots? In late 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT to the world. This freely available AI-powered chatbot could generate detailed answers on more or less any subject within seconds. It didn’t take long for people to notice its potential use as an essay-writing tool. However, how good really is this text generation technology? Could it pass say, a university level module?
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