DAVOS, Switzerland — When Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda first"started banging" on OpenAI's ChatGPT, he couldn't believe what he saw.The former English major turned ed-tech executive said that he was impressed by how the buzzy chatbot was able to"recombine word patterns" to"create new ideas."
"The first time I sat down in front of ChatGPT, I said 'this is not possible,'" Maggioncalda said. He called ChatGPT a"game changer" that is"blowing my mind" — so much so that he now talks to ChatGPT daily and uses it as a"writing assistant" and a"blog partner." His interest in the AI extends beyond personal use. Maggioncalda plans on integrating ChatGPT into Coursera's course catalog that will likely roll out this year, according to a spokesperson at Coursera. ChatGPT, he said, can be trained on Coursera's data to talk like"the smartest professors in the world."
Maggioncalda's endorsement comes as companies experiment with AI tools, including ChatGPT, to find ways to integrate AI capabilities into their products and services. So far,
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