Your ChatGPT Relationship Status Shouldn't Be Complicated - The New York Today News

The technology behind ChatGPT has been around for several years without drawing much notice. It was the addition of a chatbot interface that made it so popular. In other words, it wasn't a development in AI per se but a change in how the AI interacted with people that captured the world's attention. Very quickly, people started thinking about ChatGPT as an autonomous social entity. As early as 1996, Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass looked at the personal computers of their time and found that "equating mediated and real life is neither rare nor unreasonable. It is very common, it is easy to foster, it does not depend on fancy media equipment, and thinking will not make it go away."