Can We Trust ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence to Do Humans' Work?

An AI-generated image created using the prompt: "artificial intelligence in the future." Image created by Shutterstock's AI image generator This article was not written by ChatGPT. The artificial intelligence–powered chatbot--which can generate essays and articles with a simple prompt, have natural-sounding conversations, debug computer code, write songs, and even draft Congressional floor speeches--has quickly become a phenomenon. Developed by the Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the computer program reportedly hit 100 million users in January alone and has been called an AI breakthrough. Its apparent prowess--in one study, it fooled respected scientists into believing its fake research paper abstracts--has left professional writers feeling nervous and spooked Google into urgently ramping up its own AI efforts.