OpenAI is currently exploring ways to introduce the popular ChatGPT chatbot into the educational system, a senior executive said.
Brad Lightcap, the chief operating officer of OpenAI, announced at a San Francisco conference that the company is assembling a team to investigate educational uses of a technology that has sparked new laws, upended industries, and become a well-liked teaching tool.
“Most teachers are trying to figure out ways to incorporate (ChatGPT) into the curriculum and into the way they teach,” Lightcap said at the INSEAD Americas Conference last week.
With the help of billions of dollars from Microsoft, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT chatbot in November of last year, sparking the generative AI frenzy and making it one of the fastest-growing apps globally.
OpenAI has partnered with educational organisations like Khan Academy to develop an AI-powered instructor and with Schmidt Futures to provide funding to educational organisations in marginalised areas.
However, the issue of children’s privacy issues is a problem the chatbot has to navigate ahead of its promotion to schools. Children are subject to varying online privacy rules in many different nations. While most countries do not have age verification in place, users must be over 13 to use ChatGPT, and if they are between the ages of 13 and 18, their parents must grant permission.
