  Latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data gave rise to
Artificial Intelligent agents like Open AI's ChatGPT, which has recently become
the fastest growing application since Facebook and WhatsApp. ChatGPT has
demonstrated its ability to impact students' classroom learning experience and
exam outcomes. However, there is evidence that ChatGPT provides biased and
erroneous information, yet students use ChatGPT in academic tasks. Therefore,
an accurate understanding of ChatGPT user perception is crucial. This study has
analyzed 247 Reddit top posts related to the educational use of ChatGPT from a
prominent subreddit called "ChatGPT" for user perception analysis. Descriptive
statistics, sentiment analysis using NLP techniques, and LDA topic modeling
were used for analysis to gather a contextual understanding of the data.
Results show that the majority of the users took a neutral viewpoint. However,
there was more positive perception than negative regarding the usefulness of
ChatGPT in education.
