AI in school: Virtually chatting with George Washington and your personal GPT-4 tutor

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Khan Academy ushers in artificial intelligence that promises to enrich teaching and learning

By JOHN FENSTERWALD

ChatGPT both awed and alarmed the computer savvy and the computer-phobic public when the encyclopedic chatbot debuted in November. Teachers worried about cheating, and parents feared the unknown.

The artificial intelligence software, which analyzes mammoth amounts of information from the internet, spits out impressive essays and logical answers to seemingly any question — even, on occasion, with undue confidence, as it miscalculated a math problem or made up an answer.

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