How AI like ChatGPT could change the future of work, education and our minds

AI has been called 'the most powerful foundational technology' ever to have existed. Accurate? — Reuters

The current boom in generative artificial intelligence driven by tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which can seemingly produce organic text, images and more, represents a leap forward both in what the technology can do and its potential to influence everything from the internet itself to the minds of the people who use it.

The technology is having a moment, with the potential to overhaul millions of jobs while some experts are urging that it is accelerating too rapidly, although it has been in development in some form since World War II and the early days of the Cold War.