156. ChatGPT

The sky is falling!
Or, so you’d think from the reaction to Open AI’s public release of its ChatGPT "thing.” Tony and Charles try to make sense of what it is and what it isn’t and how it will and won’t change what we do in our teaching and in our students’ learning. It’s our goodbye to 2022 and our hello to 2023. Pedals down. Happy new year! あけましておめでとう！今年もよろしく！ Links:

• What is ChatGPT?: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/what-is-chatgpt/473664/
• Lemme look: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
• Human this Christmas: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/opinion/chatgpt-writing-ai.html
• The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-essays/672371/
• Samples of ChatGTP Output: http://tony-silva.com/t3/miscfiles/chatgtpoutput.pdf