Educators wrapping heads around ChatGPT

BY WILLIAM J. DOWD

Concerns that local students might tap into the cutting-edge artificial intelligence offered by ChatGPT to do their schoolwork for them have been realized, Superintendent John Buckey told the Marblehead Current

The powerful, multilingual chatbot can instantaneously perform literary analysis, compose original poems, write short fiction and compute complex math problems.

“This is so new, districts are trying to get up to speed quickly as they discover more about it,” Buckey said. “We just did a professional development on the topic.”

OpenAI, a private artificial intelligence research organization whose founders include Elon Musk, developed ChatGPT. The organization released the chatbot on Nov. 30 and it became wildly popular overnight. Today, its usage is in the millions.

“It uses a deep learning technique called transformerbased neural networks to generate human-like text,” wrote ChatGPT when the Current asked the chatbot about itself.

“It can be fine-tuned for various natural language processing tasks such as language translation, question answering and text summarization.” Marblehead High School