from the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. This is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

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This week, are we all going to be killed by computers? Yes, that used

to be the stuff of science fiction thrillers, but to some serious-minded people, that is now the risk

we face, as the capabilities of artificial intelligence expand at a phenomenal pace.

AI is, loosely speaking, defined as intelligence demonstrated by machines.

That can include everything from voice and facial recognition to large learning models in which

computers can at least appear to use intelligent reasoning and develop cognitive and communication

capabilities. AI has been around for decades in the last few months that debate about its

capacities and indeed the ethics

of it have intensified with the arrival of new products that have taken it way beyond what

was previously known. First ChatGPT, the chat bot by OpenAI from Microsoft, and then Google's

Bard have demonstrated their smarts at everything from writing high-quality student

essays to answering wide-ranging questions about science, philosophy, life and everything,

and even doing plausible limitations of columns written by newspaper journalists, God helpers.

All of those have combined to really emphasize the capabilities of AI.

But this, of course, is just the start.

These likely capacities will go way beyond that, of course, is just the start. These likely

capacities will go way beyond that, and they're expanding by the day. Because the frontiers of data

and the speed of which these technologies operate increase, the potential now seems limitless,

and for many people, perilous. Is it really possible that we could have a computer that's more

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