Hello and welcome to the end of the wordle streak episode of Slate Money.

Your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck, also of Axios.

Hi. And Elizabeth Spires? Hello. And yeah, I'm going to explain. You probably know because you're a news consumer why I broke my word all streak this week.

Or Emily is going to talk about industrial action in the media world.

We are going to talk about the Trump org tax evasion and why people like perks and why people wind up getting perks rather than cash.

We're going to talk in Slate Plus about the relative merits of Cash versus gifts.

We have a whole Slate plus on holiday gifting and yeah we are going to

talk about geepty and chatbots and AI. It's all coming up on slate money.

Okay, so Emily, you are now an expert on GPT 3 and artificial intelligence and when I type a question or a

statement into a box on my computer suddenly a robot will reply in something that looks like good English and I have become

wildly addicted to doing this and it has caused a lot of hand-wringing about, you know, everything from the robots are going to take our jobs to no one's ever going to be able to grade the high school English exam. What is the Emily approved truth of the matter here?

Oh wow, disclaimer. I know I make no claims to knowing the truth about anything and that is the

broad overall problem with what's called chat gPT which is what set the internet buzzing this week.

It's the new thing image jig that does what Felix says.

You type in a question or a prompt, and then it answers you

in human language. And what I wrote about for Axios and talked about on Slate What Next is that it's so much better as a user experience than say, then Google search, right?

Like you type something into Google search,

you get a bunch of links, some of them are really bad,

blah, blah, blah.

With chat, gpT, you get a straight answer

in straight paragraphs.

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