Kuala Lampur, March 15 -- The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots last year has, predictably, created huge ripples in the education sector.

As usual, students pick up on these innovations faster than lecturers; hence, this article is a cautious but friendly reminder to students about how these chatbots may be more trouble than they are worth.

I'm sure there are more, but there are at least two areas you good folks who want to graduate need to be wary about.

The first is - surprise, surprise - writing assignments.

Doesn't take a genius to see that if you use ChatGPT to churn out answers to an assignment which are then subsequently copied-and-pasted and submitted as your work, this is called, uh, cheating.

It's practical...