AI is so 'scary good' it means the end of homework and teaching children as we know it, warns Elon Musk

ELON Musk has warned that the popular AI software known as ChatGPT could make homework useless.

The Twitter owner exclaimed the end of homework in a tweet responding to New York City School's new policy to ban the software over plagiarism concerns.

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ChatGPT is an AI software released in November 2022 that is able to generate stylized words.

It operates with information put on the internet before 2020 and is capable of writing papers at a fourth-grade level.

The AI is designed to speak both conversationally and formally - leading school officials to wonder if students might start using the technology to complete their homework.

In response, the New York City education department blocked ChatGPT from all school-owned tech.

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 Jenna Lyle spoke on behalf of the education department, saying: "While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic and lifelong success."

Marc Andreeson, the co-founder of Netscape, tweeted an article by Chalkbeat NY that discussed the school district's policy change.

Elon Musk responded to the post: "It’s a new world. Goodbye homework!"

ChatGPT was created by software company OpenAI.

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The company was cofounded by Musk and former Y Combinator president Sam Altman in 2015.

While Musk has stepped down from the board, he continues to donate to the company, per Insider.

"Chat GPT is scary good," the tech billionaire tweeted last month.

"We are not far from dangerously strong AI."

Twitter had incredibly mixed views on the use of ChatGPT in the classroom.

One commenter said: "Goodbye teachers, next."

Another added: "If it weren't for the homework ... would you be able to achieve what you achieved?"

A third person said: "This is why public schools are doomed to fail — they are trapped in 19th century thinking, training children for an economy that no longer exists."

Others appeared more melancholy at the policy change.

One commenter said: "I used a calculator to do my first grade homework. The teacher always knew, I would get paddled for having “too perfect” homework. The calculator was the first electric commercial calculator TI created."

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According to Demands Sage, more than one million users were on ChatGPT the week of its launch.

The platform's software was last updated in mid-December.