“The initial reaction from several schools were to block it,” says Pop! Automation Founder, Josh Vernon. “Because it can generate an entire paper for you. If you want to do a research paper, you can have this thing pop out your 1200 word essay and then you don't have to put any real effort into it. And there's a little bit of a cat and mouse there. Because as soon as that came out, there comes the ChatGPT detector that teachers are going to start using to figure out if this stuff is AI generated and I'm sure it'll be a lot of back and forth there.
The other thought process that goes along with that, though, is how do you embrace ChatGPT within a teaching environment? Because the reality is that it's not going to go away. The genie is out of the bottle. Every major tech company has some AI initiative. Google has Google Bar, ChatGPT is integrated into Bing.
So the teachers that really want to be ahead of it, I think they need to start thinking through how do you teach students to use AI, use ChatGPT, through their normal process? Because I think as the stuff gets better and better, it becomes more ingrained into more products and it almost becomes the question of, well, who on my team is the best at using ChatGPT? Who can ask this bot and get the best results? I think that becomes part of the curriculum. It's probably too soon for everyone to start adjusting to that. But I think the question is, how do you interact with AI and how do you start thinking through that sooner than later?”