'Shock to the education system': This AI chatbot is already writing school essays and could rewrite the future of learning

Hyatt creates YouTube videos to help teachers understand how to use ChatGPT, a new AI platform with the potential to write lesson plans, do essays, and complete math homework. — Bay Area News Group/TNS

SAN JOSE: A few weeks before winter break, 17-year-old Kaden Hyatt sent a mass email to his Oakland high school, College Preparatory. He had just stumbled across a new artificial intelligence platform called ChatGPT. Hidden behind its innocuous name is a search engine on AI-laced steroids that can churn out original essays, solve complex math problems and even compose short fiction — on virtually any topic — in seconds.

Write a 1,000-word paper on the rise and fall of Genghis Khan? Finished in one minute, 45 seconds. Find the derivative of a quadratic polynomial? Less than 30 seconds, with step-by-step explanations marking the process.