ChatGPT is brilliant and weird

The latest chatbot update can write jokes, computer code and uni-level essays, as well as guess medical diagnoses, create text-based games and explain scientific concepts at multiple levels of difficulty.

Kevin Roose

Jan 3, 2023 – 5.00am

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Like most nerds who read science fiction, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering how society will greet true artificial intelligence, if and when it arrives. Will we panic? Start sucking up to our new robot overlords? Ignore it and go about our daily lives?

So, it has been fascinating to watch the Twittersphere try to make sense of ChatGPT, a new cutting-edge AI chatbot that was opened for testing in December.