The University of Hong Kong (HKU), an early mover in banning student use of ChatGPT, the open source AI-powered language model developed by OpenAI, pending an investigation into its use, has moved swiftly to partially lift that ban and invest resources into developing the use of such technologies in higher education. In February, Hong Kong’s top university imposed the temporary ban on generative AI programmes for classroom work, coursework and assessment tasks. However, in a statement on 3 August HKU said it would allow AI tools such as ChatGPT, capable of generating human-like text, and image generator Dall-E, to be incorporated into university teaching from the new academic year in September.
