ChatGPT Holds Promise and Peril
Bloomberg Opinion columnists share their views on all that’s compelling and alarming about the new text-generation software.
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Many of us have been transfixed in recent days by ChatGPT, new text-generation software that can, in seconds, write essays, poems and term papers in response to user queries. The system, developed by OpenAI, is astonishing in its speed and breadth, and alarming for the same reasons. Its humanlike answers can be so accurate and useful that one feels a robot-controlled future isn’t far off. Its errors, presented with the same seeming conviction, raise the specter of a world awash in falsehood.
Bloomberg Opinion writers have been weighing in on ChatGPT’s potential and its risks. Here are some highlights: