Teachers' concern that OpenAi's ChatGPT is 'so powerful' it could end homework trends now

Could the era of homework finally be over? School axes traditional essays amid fears students could use artificial intelligence software so powerful it earns A* grades to cheat A top London independent school has said AI is threatening homework Alleyn's School has said OpenAi's ChatGPT has caused a rethink in assessments In a test, the robot's English essay was awarded an A* grade

By John James For Mailonline

Published: 09:45 GMT, 30 January 2023 | Updated: 09:45 GMT, 30 January 2023

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A leading independent school has said they are abandoning homework essays due to the power of online artificial intelligence.

Staff at Alleyn's School in southeast London say they were forced to rethink their practises after a test English essay produced by OpenAI bot ChatGPT was awarded an A* grade.

The futuristic technology released for public use in November 2022, has already amassed millions of users worldwide and can scan the web in real time to come up with eerily human-like text in response to any question.

The Times reported that instead the co-ed school with annual fees of £22,800 will ask children to complete in-depth research in between lessons.

Alleyn's School has said they will be moving away from setting pupils essays as homework due to new AI technologies

OpenAI's ChatGPT bot is so sophisticated it is able to comb the internet and process complex and specific tasks in seconds

WHAT IS CHATGPT?

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence system that can generate eerily human-like text in response to a given prompt.

It was created and developed by the San Francisco-based company OpenAI.

One of the firms founders was billionaire Elon Musk, who resigned from the board in 2018 but remained a donor to the project.

The chatbot is a large language model that has been trained on a massive amount of text data.

The version of the bot available for public testing, launched in November 2022, attempts to understand questions posed by users and respond with in-depth answers resembling human-written text in a conversational format.

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