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(FILES) A photo taken on October 4, 2023 in Manta, near Turin,  shows a smartphone and a laptop displaying the logos of the artificial intelligence OpenAI research laboratory and ChatGPT robot. OpenAI on March 13, 2024 announced partnerships with French daily Le Monde and Spanish conglomerate Prisa Media, saying it intends to develop news-related uses of its ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool. OpenAI will be able to use content from Le Monde and Prisa Media publications including El Pais, Cinco Dias, and El Huffpost to train the models powering its artificial intelligence, the San Francisco-based company said in an online post. (Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP)

Experts say overreliance on AI could result in your losing the ability to think critically or solve problems on your own.

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SINGAPORE – Students today have a plethora of artificial intelligence (AI) tools at their disposal, from Copy.AI and ChatGPT that can write text and brainstorm ideas, to artwork generators like Dall-E 2 or Stable Diffusion. There are even tools to transcribe notes from lecture videos and produce presentation slides for you.

Generative AI tools, especially, have become new darlings of efficiency as they can take on labour-intensive tasks, analyse large chunks of information or data, and produce quality content within seconds.

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