ChatGPT: Should Google Watch Its Back?

ChatGPT: Should Google Watch Its Back?

You may have heard of ChatGPT — that Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot that uses natural language processing to understand and respond to text. ChatGPT can answer questions and explain concepts. I read a piece in the UK Guardian yesterday where a journalism professor asked the AI to handle one of the assignments he gives his students: writing a letter to a relative giving advice regarding online security and privacy. The tutor was stunned when the AI responded. To which he admitted that, were it an answer from a student, he would have given a generous score.

Released less than a week ago, ChatGPT is considered the most advanced, user-friendly chatbot to enter the public domain. ChatGPT, as over 1 million users have discovered, responds to difficult user commands with amazingly intelligent, detailed, and conversational language. It can create lines of code, a college-level essay, responses in the voice of a pirate, and a piano composition in the style of Mozart. Just search “ChatGPT” on Twitter to see more amazing things it can do, and get ready to be amazed.

Free to use by the public and without ads, the signups have been so overwhelming that OpenAI, the parent company, has halted registrations. What is astonishing about this tool is that it fulfills many of Google’s functions — and…