Educators! it's time to talk about how artificial intelligence will rock our world

On Valentine's Day, OpenAI gifted us a paper – Better Language Models and Their Implications – that rocked my educator's world. OpenAI had developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that had learnt, in an unsupervised way using millions of webpages, how to undertake writing tasks, many of which were of reasonable quality according to objective benchmarks. Imagine a future where an AI responds to an assessment task by producing original writing at pass or credit levels. No two responses would be the same because the AI would learn to check against what it and other AI had already produced. Traditional written assessment relies on students producing original work.