Last Week with ChatGPT: A Weibo Study on Social Perspective Regarding ChatGPT for Education and Beyond

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The application of AI-powered tools has piqued the interest of many fields, particularly in the academic community.

• This study uses ChatGPT, currently the most powerful and popular AI tool, as a representative example to analyze how the Chinese public perceives the potential of large language models (LLMs) for educational and general purposes.
• Although facing accessibility challenges, we found that the number of discussions on ChatGPT per month is 16 times that of Ernie Bot developed by Baidu, the most popular alternative product to ChatGPT in the mainland, making ChatGPT a more suitable subject for our analysis.
• The study also serves as the first effort to investigate the changes in public opinion as AI technologies become more advanced and intelligent.