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ChatGPT signals the end of education as we know it

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Our lives have become consumed with technology and, in many ways, the science fiction of yesterday has become the scientific reality of today.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the technological development of big data, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence (albeit in its infancy) have propelled humanity to the brink of a post-human era where continued technological advances run a very real risk of rendering traditional educational structures obsolete.

OpenAI’s latest development in artificial intelligence in the form of ChatGPT is but one example of the threat to traditional education structures, schools

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