ChatGPT will force Colorado educators to react to writing evolution

When Shelbee Eigenbrode asked an auditorium full of students at Arvada West High School whether they’d heard about ChatGPT, a surge of hands shot into the air accompanied by youthful tittering — and groans from their teachers.

The teens at Jeffco Public Schools’ annual student technology convention earlier this month were not as forthcoming when Eigenbrode — a machine-learning architect at Amazon Web Services and the event’s keynote speaker — asked what they’ve used the much-buzzed artificial intelligence program to do.

The main response: shifting eyes and shrugs, although 15-year-old André Smith said he heard about students using ChatGPT to complete their homework for them.

But he hasn’t done that himself, he added.