Everyone is talking about it, but we may not yet fully grasp what it is and what it means for education: ChatGPT. ChatGPT stands for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer” and is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot. This means that you can have a dialogue with an AI bot.
It will provide you with answers to questions, statements, or commands which it constructs from rapidly searching a massive text data set and putting together a more or less coherent narrative. Some of the output it produces is surprisingly well written and fit for purpose.
Other times, the output seems very superficial and less useful or even wrong. In any case, it is a development that we as educators need to be aware of and take into consideration when designing assessments and intended learning outcomes.
This is not going anywhere and it looks like we are stepping into a new terrain in education. In today’s digest, we provide some introductory resources on ChatGPT.
