① OpenAI is expected to form a team in 2024 to study the education industry's application prospects for ChatGPT; ② Schools and teachers thought this was the worst thing that had happened, but after a few months, they began to see the benefits of ChatGPT.
Financial News Agency, November 17 (Editor Niu Zhanlin) Brad Lightcap, chief operating officer of artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, said at a conference recently that OpenAI is exploring ways to bring its popular chatbot ChatGPT into the classroom.
Lightcap claims that OpenAI is expected to form a team in 2024 to study ChatGPT's application prospects for the education industry. This technology has the potential to disrupt some industries and is gradually becoming a popular learning and working tool.
He said, “Many teachers are trying to find ways to incorporate ChatGPT into their curriculum and teaching methods, and OpenAI is also trying to solve this problem. We may set up a dedicated team to do this next year.”
Backed by Microsoft's multi-billion dollar funding, OpenAI launched the ChatGPT chatbot in November last year, sparking a boom in generative artificial intelligence. ChatGPT has also become one of the fastest-growing apps in the world.
After training with large amounts of data, generative artificial intelligence can help users write term papers, complete homework, and even write entire novels. The ability to process text content is truly astonishing.
However, the launch of ChatGPT caused an uproar in the education industry and caught teachers off guard, as they realized it might be used as a tool for fraud and plagiarism, which then sparked backlash and a ban in some schools.
Lightcap notes that schools and teachers thought it was the worst thing that ever happened, but after a few months, they began to see the benefits of ChatGPT.
An OpenAI spokesperson said that we believe artificial intelligence is a very influential tool that can help improve the quality of learning and education, and educators have been thinking about how tools like ChatGPT can work, and we are encouraged by this.
The aforementioned spokesperson added, “We're working with educators across the country to inform them about ChatGPT's capabilities and the work we're doing to improve it. This is an important conversation so they can realize the potential benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence and understand how to apply it to the classroom.”
Additionally, OpenAI has partnered with education groups such as Khan Academy to create an AI mentor and has partnered with Schmidt Futures to provide them with education funding.
According to data from Sydney research firm HoloNiQ, global spending on education and training will reach $10 trillion by 2030. And artificial intelligence is making waves, and it will inevitably transform the entire education industry.
Andrew Mayne, a former OpenAI employee, said there are many ways to use ChatGPT in the classroom. For students, it can be a mentor who can tailor content to different learning styles. For teachers, it helps them write courses or acts as a creative classroom assistant.
Mayne pointed out that ChatGPT doesn't judge or criticize you. Some students are afraid to ask questions in class. It can solve this problem, and students can ask questions about many questions at any time.