https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-openai-did
With universal free access, the educational value of AI skyrockets (and that doesn’t count voice and vision, which I will discuss shortly). On the other hand, the Homework Apocalypse will reach its final stages. GPT-4 can do almost all the homework on Earth. And it writes much better than GPT-3.5, with a lot more style and a lot less noticeably “AI” tone. Cheating will become ubiquitous, as will universal high-end tutoring, creating an interesting time for education.
I’ve been trying to think what ‘assessment’ looks like in a world where generative AI can complete all of the tasks we typically give students (note: I’m trying to make progress on an essay on the topic, but life is busy).
The only way out of the dilemma – IMO – is to give students much more difficult assessment tasks. The kinds of tasks you can only complete with AI. The way we changed maths problems to be far more difficult once students had access to cheap calculators.
The article at the link above covers a lot more than the quote I’ve pulled out here, and is worth reading in it’s entirety. It’s an overview of the recent OpenAI announcement.