Adoption of ChatGPT in Higher Education-Application of IDT Model, Testing and Validation

ChatGPT refers to a latest AI tool which is natural language processing (NLP) based, an interactive Chatbot, which can do conversation with identified and notable users for various purposes like content creation, writing, auditing and providing answers to day-to-day questions. ChatGPT is been used by many users belong to different professions, ages, genders etc. As of now, but most of the users of ChatGPT are found to be students' category, who are using ChatGPT for their academic learning purpose. With this background, an attempt has been made to understand the factors influencing adoption of ChatGPT by the higher education students. For this purpose, a research survey has been designed and the Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) was applied to know the factors affecting Innovation Adoption (i.e. Adoption of ChatGPT). The primary data was collected from higher education students in the city of Visakhapatnam, India. The statistical tools CFA and SEM were applied to achieve the research aim of factors influencing higher education students to adopt ChatGPT. The results show that two factors/ constructs i.e. Trialability (T) and Observability (O) are found to be significant and three factors Relative Advantage (A), Compatibility (C) and Complexity (C) are not found to be significant.