The assignment due last Sunday night calls on 180 students to compose a question about contemporary medical challenges and ask ChatGPT to write an essay on it. Students must read what the robot produces, edit its response, track their changes and submit a final draft for marking. Brown said the assignment was testing students' ability to exercise judgment and be creative because those were skills that would be required in their professional lives, rather than simply collating information. "There are different types of knowing – one of the basic types is memorising and reproducing information or collating information – that is a stock-in-trade for universities but ChatGPT does that," Brown said. Successfully manipulating a question for ChatGPT to produce an optimal essay was one of the main criteria for success while the marker would also judge how they had edited the essay to an acceptable standard.