At the end of January 2023, UNamur organized a PUNCh (Pédagogie Universitaire Namuroise en Changement) session dedicated to ChatGPT, which was a real success, with some 260 participants.  Out of 600 or 700 people concerned, this is significant. We had dynamic individuals who developed a resolutely positive approach to the tool, based on the premise that it was part of the practices of future professionals and that it was necessary to see to what extent it could be used for learning and career purposes. The various speakers presented the tool, but also its limitations and the scenarios in which it could be implemented. The aim was to pool and share best practices.

It is impossible not to have some concerns about the risk of plagiarism and fraud.  But we now have a different relationship with the availability of knowledge. Of course, we cannot imagine training doctors who have no knowledge of the human body, but we can imagine a scenario in which doctors act in alliance with their own knowledge and what they can glean from digital resources: this is more a case of augmented reality, an augmentation rather than a substitution.

Laurent Schumacher, Faculty of Computer Science, NaDI Institute