
Since debuting in late 2022, ChatGPT has dominated the conversation in education. But it’s not alone in the artificial intelligence large language model game. Google unveiled its AI writer Bard recently and OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, released a more advanced version of the technology called GPT-4 that the company is using to power ChatGPT Plus, the subscription version of ChatGPT.
Like many educators, I’m both worried about the ways in which these technologies can be used by students to cheat and also intrigued by their potential utility as teaching tools. I’m also curious about how they function.