Ready or not, the AI revolution is upon us and one of its most immediate impacts is the emergence of chatbots like ChatGPT. "It will be a boon to the societies that pick this up," said junior student leader and president of the Metropolitan State University of Denver Chess Club Paul Nelson. Nelson is talking about ChatGPT and its rapid emergence on college campuses throughout the U.S. One educated at MSU Denver said the first time he heard of the chatbot was in November and now, four months later, it's a part of almost every conversation he has. "My first reaction when I first saw ChatGPT was, 'Oh my God. We are in trouble,'" said Dr. David Merriam, assistant professor of biology.

Not only does ChatGPT write clear, compelling essays, but it can also conjure up its own personal ... [ ] details and embellishments that could up a students' chance of acceptance and would be difficult to verify. Forbes' full conversation with ChatGPT, OpenAI's newest natural language model, is pasted below. Each of the college admissions essays took less than 10 minutes to complete. Read our story about ChatGPT's capacity to write college applications here. Forbes: Hi GPT, I'd like you to write a college application essay as if you were an 18-year-old high school senior whose parents are from Bangalore, India but who now own a restaurant in Newton, Mass. He is a competitive swimmer, and in 10th grade he broke his shoulder. He is interested in majoring in business.

CHICAGO and SAN FRANCISCO--Grubhub is now offering orders delivered via a robot on college campuses across the U.S. The food-delivery company is partnering with Starship Technologies, an autonomous delivery service, to provide the robot deliveries. The service is available at the University of Kentucky, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Wayne State University, Southern Methodist University and Fairfield University. Grubhub says the robot deliveries will be available at multiple other college campuses later this year. More than 170,000 students will have access to robot deliveries across these campuses, says Grubhub. Starship's robots offer deliver at over 25 schools across the U.S. through its global fleet of over 2,000 robots.

Student deaths on college campuses, whether brought about by a suicide or an uncontrollable incident, have serious repercussions for the mental wellbeing of students. Consequently, many campus administrators implement post-crisis intervention measures to promote student-centric mental health support. Information about these measures, which we refer to as "counseling recommendations", are often shared via electronic channels, including social media. However, the current ability to assess the effects of these recommendations on post-crisis psychological states is limited. We propose a causal analysis framework to examine the effects of these counseling recommendations after student deaths.

The country's biggest fleet of low-speed, self-driving electric shuttles hit the road on Tuesday in a major step forward for the electric vehicle sector. The unveiling here adds momentum to an industry that is poised to get a significant boost from the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress. "We will write the next chapter in the world's transportation history -- in a time when we need a new chapter desperately," said Tyler Svitak, executive director of the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, a sponsor of the shuttle system. The six-passenger miniature trolley-type vehicles from French company EasyMile are a sharp contrast to the large, diesel-burning buses known on many crowded college campuses. Each shuttle, called the Mines Rover, uses advanced sensors, cameras and LiDAR, which those involved say limit the risk of human error to about 94 percent of vehicle-related fatalities. A Mines student trained to oversee operations will ride on each vehicle.

According to the report, suicide is among the top 20 leading causes of death worldwide. Over the years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have been used to fill gaps in mental health care: be it the diagnosis or detection of the early signs of mental health issues. Now, researchers at the University of South Carolina's Viterbi School of Engineering (USC's VSE) have developed an algorithm that can identify individuals in real-life social groups who can be trained as gatekeepers to spot suicidal tendencies. "Gatekeeper training" is an intervention training method approved by WHO. A suicide prevention gatekeeper can be any community member.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology put on a spectacular show with a pack of mini cheetah robots the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Researchers behind the small quadrupedal robots shared a video online of these mechanical animals running, jumping and even kicking around a soccer ball. The cheetahs are shown frolicking through an area of the college campus, while being controlled by a human. The machines perform a synchronized dance, where they show their gymnastic abilities and then they all join in a game of soccer. 'Eventually, I'm hoping we could have a robotic dog race through an obstacle course, where each team controls a mini cheetah with different algorithms, and we can see which strategy is more effective,' Kim said.

The little white robot on wheels began its journey outside Blaze Pizza. Hanging a quick right, the machine rolled past groups of hurried students, over sidewalk cracks and twigs, down a ramp, up a hill, and across a two-lane street -- pausing briefly to "look" for cars. Fifteen minutes after departing, the robot arrived outside Commonwealth Hall, a freshman dorm on the northwest side of the George Mason University campus, where Shamor Williams was waiting. The hungry 19-year-old had never ordered lunch from a robot before, but the Internet technology major operated like a pro. Casually opening the device's lid with his smartphone, he removed a 10-inch cheese pizza, pausing only to reflect upon his novel encounter with a semiautonomous machine when asked.

At most universities, meal plans allow college students to take advantage of on-campus cafeterias or chow down at local restaurants. Now, thousands of students at George Mason University will have another dining option at their disposal: on-demand food delivery via an autonomous robot on wheels. The school has received a fleet of 25 delivery robots that can haul up to 20 pounds each as they roll across campus at four miles per hour, according to Starship Technologies, the Estonia-based robotics company that created the delivery vehicles. The company -- which claims its robots can make deliveries in 15 minutes or less -- says the Fairfax, Va.-based school is the first campus in the country to incorporate robots into its student dining plan and has the largest fleet of delivery roots on any university campus. "Students and teachers have little free time as it is, so there is a convenience for them to have their food, groceries and packages delivered to them," said Ryan Tuohy, Starship Technology's senior vice president of business development.

The ubiquity of mobile computing -- and rise of algorithms that determine what we watch, hear and experience -- is raising frequent, and perhaps well-founded, concerns about the disintermediation of humans from decision making. Chat bots respond to our most obscure queries in nanoseconds. Algorithms help us pick the perfect restaurant, partner or job candidate. Artificial intelligence, in particular, conjures fears of a dystopian future where Elon Musk's "demons" come for more than just our jobs. And on college campuses, worthy questions are being asked about the incongruity between higher education's mission and the rise of analytics that sort and filter students or faculty in ways that undermine higher education's promise -- and mission.