ChatGPT could make life easier -- here's when it's worth it

Swanson, who goes by the name "Supercomposite" online, is one of the artists and thinkers testing the possibilities of generative AI, or systems that spit out text or images in response to human input. During the past year, this technology went mainstream, with image generator DALL-E grabbing headlines and, most recently, a publicly available conversational bot built with the advanced language model GPT-3. This bot, named ChatGPT, can respond to questions and requests with the ease of an instant messenger. Its creator, OpenAI, made it available to the public in November, and a million people flocked to try it, the company says.