Q IAIN SHERE, WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE
How scared should I be of ChatGPT?
A Very scared, and not scared at all. Both at once. Over the years, Guru has done his fair share of monkeying about with AI. He’s generated nonsensical answers to your questions with it, he’s made weird pictures of RoboCop with it, and he’s totally failed to understand how it works or quite why it makes his electricity bill so high. AI and machine learning still feels like unfathomably cool technology, particularly for someone who rose through the ranks in the 8-bit era of computing.
ChatGPT is a banner-waver for the next generation of machine learning. In itself it’s not scary because it is,