A Lesson on ChatGPT
![A 'ChatGPT' robot sits in the middle of a class of students. The teacher asks it to prepare a list of students who it helped on the last assignment. A 'ChatGPT' robot sits in the middle of a class of students. The teacher asks it to prepare a list of students who it helped on the last assignment.](/sites/default/files/2024-10/2023_th07_05_a-lesson-on-chatgpt_smith_perth-sunday-times_.jpg)
Greg 'Smithy' Smith
Generative artificial intelligence tools, such as the language and writing tool ChatGPT, suddenly became widely accessible in 2023. Just about anyone with a computer and internet connection has the potential to use it to draft an essay. Greg ‘Smithy’ Smith’s cartoon considers whether this will radically change the way normal classroom assignment-writing is done in the future.