“Even a ‘robot’ thinks not only is UniSA up to the task of transforming higher education in this state, but also that we have an obligation to do so.” Uni SA VC David Lloyd is not alarmed by ChatGPT

Rather, he tells staff, “how cool it is that a quasi-sentient on-line tool, built from ones and zeros and manifest by the passage of electrons through human designed circuits in materials of differing conductivity” can make a coherent case for merging universities in Adelaide.

Not as cool as the one he and Uni Adelaide VC Peter Høj will have to make for the merger of their unis, now being considered.