Paul Stenhouse: The internet is abuzz about a new AI chatbot

<p><strong>The internet is abuzz about a new AI chatbot that is a massive step forward in computing</strong><span> </span></p> <p><span>It's impressive! ChatGPT has some of the biggest names in tech gob smacked with just how advanced it is. Built by OpenAI (a non-profit) and has indexed much of the internet, just like Google, but effectively has a machine brain on top of that.</span> <span>You can ask it to do things like write code or check code.. right the way through to ask it to write a news story. You can give it inputs, or draw on its knowledge, and even tell it what style to write in.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>You can ask it for business strategy ideas, write a poem in the voice of a pirate, or generate marketing copy.</span><span> </span></p> <p><span><strong>It's already having real-world impacts</strong></span><span> </span></p> <p><span>There is a dyslexic contractor, Ben Whittle, who has always struggled with writing business-style emails which has hindered his dreams of starting his own contracting swimming pool business. He was lucky to have a met Danny Richman who started mentoring him and helped him write these emails a couple of times a week. But now, Danny has turned to ChatGPT to write the emails for them based on some very brief inputs. Ben gets professional sounding and formatted emails whenever he needs them.</span> <br> </p> <p> <br><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> </span></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> </span></p> <p> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>