Whether it's getting cookery advice or help with a speech, ChatGPT has been the first opportunity for many people to play with an artificial intelligence (AI) system.

ChatGPT is based an an advanced language processing technology, developed by OpenAI.

The artificial intelligence (AI) was trained using text databases from the internet, including books, magazines and Wikipedia entries. In all 300 billion words were fed into the system.

The end result is a Chatbot that can seem eerily human, but with an encyclopedic knowledge.

Tell ChatGPT what you have in your kitchen cabinet and it will give you a recipe. Need a snappy intro to a big presentation? No problem.

But is it too good? Its convincing approximation of human responses could be a powerful tool for those up to no good.

No matter how advanced our technology, psychologically, IMO, we are not long out of the cave.

I reckon the first thing it will be used for will be to make money, and the inevitable casualties will be collateral damage.

I won't knowingly be using such.

Could?

Lots of not so smart bots influence already millions or maybe even billions of people.

 

Most people want easy solutions, they don't want sophisticated explanations which are not easy to understand.

Remember MAGA and Brexit sovereignty and all that.