ChatGPT Implementation in the Metaverse: Towards Another Level of Immersiveness in Education

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.