ChatGPT: AI has become the next big thing

ChatGPT has captured the public imagination in a way the tech world hasn't seen since the debut of the iPhone in 2007. Why it matters: Most of us are only now getting a glimpse of just how smart artificial intelligence has become. What it is: ChatGPT is a free (for now) site that lets users pose questions and give directions to a bot that can answer with conversation, term papers, sonnets, recipes -- almost anything. In almost any style you specify. The big picture: The possibilities for ChatGPT seem endless.