Episode 8.08: How chatGPT heralds an unprecedented revolution in personalised education.

Since the dawn of human history, we have been forced to do education through older human beings teaching younger human beings what they know, often in institutional centres of learning. Until the invention of printing, access to resources was severely restricted both because of their scarcity, and because of their value, and only with the advent of the computer and the Internet has that really changed m. We no longer needed access to physical libraries then, and now we no longer need human experts because chat bots will be able to provide better information more quickly and a way that is far more tailored to the particular interests and abilities of each individual pupil. Assessment can similarly be personalised or even become unnecessary. The world of education has suddenly changed.