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Who needs a teacher? As ChatGPT takes off in Hong Kong, educationists worry about impact on teaching, learning
- Experts are divided on merits of tech tool in education, with concerns about cheating and plagiarism
- ChatGPT is shaking up the education scene and experts say everyone must just come to terms with it
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In the final of a two-part series, Oscar Liu and Cannix Yau track the impact of artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT on education and the questions being raised. Read part one here.
Hong Kong teenager Timothy Lee Chi-chung went online to get some help with his schoolwork.
He asked ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that has taken the world by storm, for an English grammar quiz set at the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) level.
In just two seconds, he was looking at a list of 19 multiple-choice questions.
“I wrote down my answers and asked ChatGPT to tell me how many I got right,” said the 16-year-old, who will sit the DSE examinations next year.
“It’s good enough that I have these free exercises in my pocket, it saves my parents a lot of money buying me supplementary exercise books.”
Oscar joined the South China Morning Post in 2022. He started his career as a TV news anchor/reporter trainee and has worked for different news outlets including ATV, Ming Pao and Apple Daily.
Cannix joined the Post in 2014 after many years in journalism and some years working for legislators. She is interested in issues related to social justice and won numerous press awards including SOPA's Excellence in Reporting Award.
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