ChatGPT: Finally, an AI chatbot worth talking to

AI chatbot experts are all talking about -- and talking to -- a newish research project from artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI. Conceptually, ChatGPT can be used like the AI art tools in the sense that minimal text input by the user produces credible synthetic media -- paragraphs instead of images. In fact, it can write convincing, often compelling essays, stories and even poems. And, like the AI image creators, you can direct ChatGPT to write prose in specific styles. I told ChatGPT to tell me about Twitter in three separate queries: one in the style of Ernest Hemingway, another in the style of Mark Twain and the third in the form of a limerick.