AI in education: ChatGPT is just the beginning

Large language models like ChatGPT can generate coherent, believable text. How does this impact education and teaching? Strictly speaking, ChatGPT – artificial intelligence that generates texts in response to input prompts – is not even the beginning, but merely an intermediate stage in natural language processing (NLP), which has been observed for about ten years. ChatGPT also can't do anything fundamentally new that earlier tools couldn't. It differs only in the quality of the generated output, the focus on interactivity (input of questions and AI-generated answers) and, above all, in its captivating simplicity: a URL, a registration, a single simple empty text field and the infinity of text generation is open to you, which moreover (depending on the question, mostly) provides meaningful and well-founded results, since it accesses a corpus of about 1 trillion words (from 6 million Wikipedia articles and millions of books and websites). It should be noted that the training dataset consists almost exclusively of English-language texts, but AI-assisted translation also comes into play when communicating with users.