https://www.scmp.com/rss/267838/feed Dr Sean McMinn is the director of the Center for Education Innovation at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, overseeing strategic planning for technology-enhanced teaching and learning. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The teacher is dead. Resistance is futile. If you don’t know about OpenAI’s ChatGPT, you should. Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is a prototype chatbot built on OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model. In short, it is an artificial intelligence (AI) trained on a large data set and human-defined guidelines and principles to respond to questions and requests. The concept of an AI chatbot is not new. What sets ChatGPT apart is its exceptional performance and potential to disrupt education. Since its... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3206436/chatgpt-killed-classroom-star-ais-rise-means-its-time-rethink-teaching-and-testing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3206436/chatgpt-killed-classroom-star-ais-rise-means-its-time-rethink-teaching-and-testing?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:15:07 +0000 There are some in Hong Kong, such as university student unions, who are purposely circulating memes hashtagged with #ChineseCoronaVirus, #WuhanPneumonia or some variation thereof through social media. Why? One can only assume the purpose is to keep the anti-China movement alive and demonise a people. It’s important to analyse and evaluate why these people insist on using such labels for the novel coronavirus, in spite of the World Health Organisation’s recommendations. As stated in a WHO... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3076738/why-hong-kong-students-spreading-racist-coronavirus-memes-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3076738/why-hong-kong-students-spreading-racist-coronavirus-memes-and?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:00:17 +0000 It is deeply troubling how quickly hatred, racism and prejudice can spread online. Many memes circulating on Facebook, LIHKG or Reddit, for example, dangerously promote racist or biased behaviour in Hong Kong, adding misinformation to a very complex political and social issue. Authors and sharers of these memes appear not to care about the complexity of Hong Kong’s situation. They only want to vilify the police, protesters, the government or China (take your pick). Of course, it is easy to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3033220/how-hong-kong-protest-memes-can-spread-hatred-racism-and-patent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3033220/how-hong-kong-protest-memes-can-spread-hatred-racism-and-patent?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Oct 2019 02:30:13 +0000