28 days after ChatGPT

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:36:12 -0500

It seems that the world has changed since ChatGPT's launch on November 30, 2022, just 28 days ago. Far from perfect and often offering nonsensical advice. For example, when Rhiannon Williams from MITTR asked ChatGPT to "write me a 16-week marathon training plan", it suggested the longest run of a maximum of 10 miles and in another instance for the same question, it suggested running 19 miles the day before the race. Both of these would have left the runner unprepared and may have caused them serious injury. Although Google have declared "code red" threat to their Search Business and Microsoft is capitalizing on this moment to avenge its Search Business by allegedly building ChatGPT-like features into Bing by as early as March, we educators have to understand its power and peril. While some of what we see is simply the hype cycle effect while the platform is in "research preview", we have to be ahead of it and ask how do you deploy it for the good of teaching and learning?