Welcome to Forbes Talks. Joining me now is Barry Collins, a contributor here at Forbes.

Barry, thank you so much for joining me.

Hi.

Great, so I want to talk about chat gee PT which has really gained popularity recently. First can you tell us what it is?

Well it's an AI system that basically starts to chat like a human, almost scary like a human in fact.

It's the latest version of this system that's been released by a company called

Open AI, which Ella Musk was involved with at the start and

as various investors. So it's it's a big

field at the moment and this is just one of the latest developments.

And how recently did this latest development come out?

Only the last week or so.

It's suddenly gone massive on social media.

I'm sure lots of people have seen conversations being posted on Twitter and stuff, but yeah, it's a real new arrival on the scene.

And why do you think it has gone so viral?

I think just because the sheer sophistication of the conversations and the range of stuff it can do, I sort of interviewed it. It's writing poetry, it's writing songs, it's writing tweets, headline stories, blog posts.

I mean, you can, there's pretty much anything you ask it to do.

It at least has a stab at responding and it's pretty terrifying what some of the stuff it's doing.

So you interviewed it for Forbes and you called it a liar in your piece. Can you explain? Yeah well I was asking it about the ethics of AI and what it felt about

where it was ethical for the AI to sort of behave like a human being and it gave me some

pretty straightforward answers and some pretty good answers and then I was sort of running

a bit dry so I asked it to write a poem for me about the ethics of AI, which it did and it did it twice. In fact, it had a sort of stab at a more humorous version and it's not going to win the awards awards of poetry but it had a go. So what level of

self-awareness I guess does this technology have? I don't know I mean I don't think

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