ChatGPT has become the ‘best teammate’ to these Sydney university students – but is there a limit?

Abigail Bobkowski (left), Yihong Yuan and Jack Quinlan: students at the University of Sydney who are using generative AI. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Third-year student Jack Quinlan was confident he knew what I was going to ask before we conducted our interview. He wasn’t psychic, and I hadn’t fed him questions – he’d just done a trial run on ChatGPT.

Prior to our meeting, the software engineering and neuroscience undergraduate logged on to the program to generate the kinds of questions a “professional journalist at the Guardian” would ask a student about artificial intelligence at universities.