You may not have heard of chatbots before, but chances are you have read a recent news story about ChatGPT from OpenAI or rival Bing from Microsoft or Bard from Google. These artificial intelligence apps give apparently intelligent, if occasionally bizarre, responses to questions. They can write an essay on Keynesian economics, produce a Shakespearean sonnet about a nightingale or create computer code instantly to order. Will these digital Frankenstein monsters eclipse humanity, or is it just more hype from Big Tech?
Older readers will remember stories or poems “written by a computer” from long ago and may be wary of the
