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  • ChatGPT is capable of achieving respectable grades at Harvard, an experiment found.
  • Per the experiment conducted by a Harvard student, the bot ended the year with a 3.34 GPA. 
  • The rise of generative AI has rocked the higher education sector in recent months.

A version of ChatGPT powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 is capable of passing a typical freshman year at Harvard, a recent experiment found.

Maya Bodnick, an intern at Matthew Yglesias's newsletter "Slow Boring," decided to see how the chatbot would fare at an Ivy League College.