Reclining Woman, c.4000-2500BCE, National Museum of Archaeology, Malta

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 precipitated a panic among some educators while prompting qualified enthusiasm from others. Under the umbrella term “Generative AI,” ChatGPT is an example of a range of technologies for the delivery of recomposed text, image, and other digitized media. This paper examines the implications for education of one generative AI technology, chatbots supported by large language models (C-LLMs). It briefly reports on an application of a C-LLM to AI review and assessment of complex student work—a full report is currently in publication. The paper explores the intrinsic limits of generative AI, bound as it is to language corpora and their textual representation through binary notation. Within these limits, we suggest the range of potential applications of generative AI in education.

• Cope, Bill and Mary Kalantzs, "Generative AI Comes to School (GPTs and All That Fuss): What Now?,” Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023 (forthcoming).
• Full text in the New Learning Community