Fruitful and Fruitless Work of CHATGPT on University Students in Tanzania

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Strong debate exists after innovation of chatbotOpenAl calledChatGpt. One side has been observed as fruitful and other side as fruitless work. This study focused to asses both sides fruitful and fruitless work of ChatGPTon University student in Tanzania. The study had two objectives namely asses fruitful and fruitless work of ChatGpt on University student in Tanzania. The study used comprehensive documents review analysis from both bibliometric and altmetric sources. Findings showed that, the fruitful included: ChatGpt might be used as dictionary, research tool, and control grammatical error. Moreover fruitless work: weak to draw graphs,can’t collect primary data, can’t makes calculation, weak to download e-books and academic misinformation. The study recommended that; highly trainings needed to students, mother tongue language should also added, further researches needed on the usage of Chatgpt and government should allocate enough fund to University for conducting researches. The study concluded by advising Universities students in Tanzania to use ChatGpt to search learning materials because it provide direct responses compare to other software like Google which provides many alternatives responses and students mandated to choose one which thinks is most suitable response.

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Fruitful, fruitless, University students, ChatGpt

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