AI and you: The good, the bad and the ugly

Machine learning has come a long way since computer scientists began taking an interest in programming a computer to play chess in the 1940s. It was only in 1997 that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer became the first machine to beat then-reigning world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Since then researchers have been finding ways to make artificial intelligence (AI) more sophisticated and smarter, which prompts the question: Are humans at risk of being replaced by AI? The future of "static" chatbots, the kind that everyone finds annoying because it gives a set of templated answers, may be a thing of the past, as researchers at OpenAI have trained a model dubbed ChatGPT to interact in a conversational manner. The AI research and deployment company claims that the dialogue-based AI chatbot can provide lengthy answers to various questions, write a song on any topic (try eggs), create slogans and even help to debug programs.