ChatGPT is Social Media's Newest Star - The New York Times

In today's newsletter, I'll explain the potential benefits of artificial intelligence but also why some experts worry it could be dangerous. The upside of artificial intelligence is that it might be able to accomplish tasks faster and more efficiently than any person can. The possibilities are up to the imagination: self-driving and even self-repairing cars, risk-free surgeries, instant personalized therapy bots and more. The technology is not there yet. But it has advanced in recent years through what is called machine learning, in which bots comb through data to learn how to perform tasks. In ChatGPT's case, it read a lot.