Will students soon learn from a machine how the French Revolution unfolded? Will patients soon receive their diagnoses and medication only from a computer? Will a large portion of lawyers, journalists, or copywriters soon become obsolete?

Scientists, media, and business managers have been dealing with these questions for years. To this day, there are no definitive answers. But for a few days now we know how realistic these scenarios are. Because a few days ago, the US manufacturer OpenAI introduced its ChatGPT program, a chatbot based on its own artificial intelligence (AI) GPT-3.5.

by Lukas Steinwandter

published on November 09, 2022