AI and Academic Integrity Decussation
Nicky Tjano · UJ Press eBooks · 2025
AI (artificial intelligence) refers to systems that display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve specific goals. AI-based systems can be purely software-based, acting in the virtual world (e.g., voice assistants, image analysis software, search engines, speech, and face recognition systems) or AI can be embedded in hardware devices (e.g., advanced robots, autonomous cars, drones, or IoT [internet of things] applications). This definition was proposed by HLEG (the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence) in 2019. Samoili, Cobo, Gómez, De Prato, Martínez-Plumed, & Delipetrev (2020:4) suggest that there are two broad categories that can be identified from this definition, namely the ability of machines to reason and make decisions and learn.