ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Guide for Teachers released

OpenAI recently published a free training course for teachers to introduce artificial intelligence-based tools to create curriculum and interactive training for students, but some teachers still do not have a positive opinion of this technology and its potential.

Using chatbots to create educational content is one of the useful applications of artificial intelligence for students and their teachers. In this regard, the OpenAI company has recently released a free online course in which it teaches teachers how to use their chatbot as well as how to use it for education. This course was developed in collaboration with the non-profit organization Common Sense Media, which works closely with the artificial intelligence giant.

According to OpenAI, in the special course for teachers, 9 topics are covered in one hour and all the basic principles of artificial intelligence and its educational applications are covered. It is said that this training course is also implemented in several schools in the United States, and according to an internal survey, 98 percent of the participants managed to find new ideas and strategies for teaching students with the help of artificial intelligence.

What problems does the use of artificial intelligence cause for teachers?

Artificial intelligence models have limitations and cannot be fully relied on; For example, ChatGPT cannot accurately evaluate student performance. This must be done under the supervision of the teachers themselves. Some educators believe that the normalization of the use of artificial intelligence in schools can create challenges, and perhaps many are unaware of the ethical complexities of this issue. In addition, protecting children’s privacy is one of the concerns that must be addressed; Otherwise, it can cause relatively big problems.

Teachers’ use of data is another problem that teachers have with artificial intelligence; For example, ChatGPT can be used to design student assignments, but the output data remains on OpenAI servers and can be used for training later models or for commercial use. Although the company’s website states that people’s data is not used to make money, there is nothing wrong with using it internally to improve artificial intelligence models. Also, maybe in the future we will see a change in policies and the data created by users will become a source of income for companies.

It seems that OpenAI has a special focus on the field of education and wants to overtake its competitors in this field. The company recently hired one of the former senior managers of the Coursera platform, who has years of experience in providing online training. Also this spring, we saw the launch of a new subscription for ChatGPT called Edu, which is aimed at students and the academic community. According to forecasts, the educational artificial intelligence market could reach a value of 88.200 billion dollars by the next decade, but for now it is growing slowly due to pessimism about new tools.