Abstract
Novel artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the capability to reinvent education and enhance the immersive experience of learners. The education industry is continually embracing advanced AI tools to harness their functionalities for optimal teaching and learning. When the metaverse was released, its interactive features were leveraged to promote an engaging learning experience for students. Several applications of the metaverse in schools indicate that metaverse-based education has the potential to provide situated and authentic learning which is highly prized in this twenty-first century. ChatGPT is one such AI tool which is touted to revolutionize education. ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 possess powerful functionalities that have been underscored to provide a fully immersive experience for learners. The quick response rate, level of accuracy, personality, and other abilities of ChatGPT makes it an enabler of metaverse-based education to create a higher level of immersiveness. In this review article, we outline the strengths and weaknesses of both the metaverse and ChatGPT and how ChatGPT can be used to overcome the shortcomings of metaverse-based education. Considerations for implementing ChatGPT in the metaverse are also discussed. It is proposed that educators should integrate ChatGPT into metaverse educational platforms to situate learners in realistic, problem-solving, and creative ways of thinking.
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Appendix: Steps in Integrating Metaverse and ChatGPT
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1 | Identify the specific use case | Identify the specific use case for integrating ChatGPT and the metaverse. For example, you may want to use ChatGPT to enhance communication and interaction in a virtual classroom or to create more realistic and engaging chatbots for virtual customer service |
2 | Choose the appropriate platform | Choose the appropriate platform for integrating ChatGPT and the metaverse. Various platforms, such as Unity, Unreal Engine, can be used to create virtual environments and integrate ChatGPT |
3 | Set up the virtual environment | Set up the virtual environment that will be used for integrating ChatGPT. This may involve creating a virtual classroom or a virtual customer service environment, depending on your specific use case |
4 | Train the ChatGPT model | Train the ChatGPT model on the specific language data that will be used in the virtual environment. This may involve fine-tuning the model on the specific domain and context of the virtual environment |
5 | Integrate ChatGPT with the virtual environment | Integrate the ChatGPT model with the virtual environment by adding it to the codebase or the script of the virtual environment |
6 | Test and refine the integration | Test and refine the integration by conducting usability testing and user acceptance testing to ensure that the integration works as intended and is user-friendly |
7 | Iterate and improve the integration | Iterate and improve the integration based on user feedback and observations. This may involve refining the ChatGPT model, improving the virtual environment, or enhancing the user interface |
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Adarkwah, M.A., Tlili, A., Shehata, B., Huang, R., Amoako, P.Y.O., Wang, H. (2024). ChatGPT Implementation in the Metaverse: Towards Another Level of Immersiveness in Education. In: Lyu, Z. (eds) Applications of Generative AI. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46238-2_21
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