AS I WRITE about technology for a living, I'm used to seeing small leaps in technological progress. This year's hot new phone has a slightly better camera than last year's. Or a new computer processor has been invented that can crunch numbers slightly faster than what came before.
But occasionally, there are things that will shock me. At the end of last year, a company called OpenAI released a truly jaw-dropping demonstration of a new AI technology that feels almost like the technology has skipped a few generations. It's like going straight from the Wright Brothers to a Boeing 747. And I genuinely think it is going to change the world.
The technology is called ChatGPT-though you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for witchcraft, magic or divine intervention. So what exactly is it?
"ChatGPT is a computer program that can understand and respond to human language. It is trained on a lot of text, so it can understand what people are saying and respond in a way that sounds like a real person. It can be used for things like having a conversation or finishing a sentence. Even this sentence that you are reading now, was written by ChatGPT."
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