The challenge to education from ChatGPT

Just a few months ago, I knew virtually nothing about ChatGPT, the latest development in artificial intelligence. Whilst l had heard colleagues talking what the "chatbot age" might do to their children, it was only when I heard Bill Gates saying that it was as pioneering a technological invention as the first PC, that I began to take a serious interest. Effectively, he was telling us that we better get used to it because it will completely change our lives. At that looks certain to be the case especially with the news that Google is getting ready to launch its own model Bard AI. ChatGPT is designed to provide detailed answers to all our human questions, so, in schools, colleges and universities, it can be used to write essays and do all kinds of traditional course work.