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Over the last few months, I've gotten sort of obsessed with AI.

I got especially interested in generative AI, which is the type of AI that's allowed people to make things like the fake picture of Pope Francis with the white puffer jacket or the hit song that featured fake Drake.

I got so into it that I tried to see if I could train an AI on my own voice.

And it kind of worked. It's not perfect, but I'm actually not reading this line.

I just typed it into a program, and I haven't been reading anything this whole time.

Okay. Back to real me.

These tools have all been fascinating.

But the one I really couldn't stop thinking about was ChatGPT, the Chatbot released by OpenAI late last year.

And it's because of the surprisingly wide range of things I saw this one Chatbot doing.

Like writing the story of Goldilocks as if it was from the King James Bible.

And it came to pass in those days that a certain young damsel named Goldilocks did wander into the dwelling of three bears.

I saw it passing tons of standardized tests, being used for scientific research, even building full websites based on a few sketched out notes.

I'm just going to take a photo, and here we go, going from hand drawn to working website.

But I also saw some less fun things, like Chatbots disrupting entire industries, playing a major role in the Hollywood writer's strike.

The Union is seeking a limit on the use of AI, like ChatGPT, to generate scripts in seconds.

They've been used to create fake news stories. They've been shown to walk people through, how to make chemical weapons.

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