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The Wild Future of Artificial Intelligence

“It’s going to be fascinating to see how people incorporate this second brain into their job,” Derek Thompson says.
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OpenAI’s impressive new artificial-intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, has intensified the debate over what the rise of AI-generated writing and art means for work, culture, education, and more. “You don’t need a wild imagination to see that the future cracked open by these technologies is full of awful and awesome possibilities,” our staff writer Derek Thompson recently wrote. I called Derek to explore some of those possibilities.

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