We are about to be hit by the AI tornado

The tech super-cycle has pitched us into a Promethean moment, when new tools, ways of thinking or energy sources propel a change in not just one thing but everything we do. 

Large language modules like ChatGPT will steadily increase in their capabilities and take us towards a form of artificial general intelligence. PHOTO: AFP
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I had a most remarkable but unsettling experience last week. Craig Mundie, the former chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, was giving me a demonstration of GPT-4, the most advanced version of the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI and launched last November.

Craig was preparing to brief the board of my wife’s museum, Planet Word, of which he is a member, about the effect ChatGPT will have on words, language and innovation.

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