2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence – and weren’t sure what to do about it

A ChapGPT logo is seen on a smartphone. Catalysing a year of AI fanfare was ChatGPT. The chatbot gave the world a glimpse of recent advances in computer science even if not everyone figured out quite how it works or what to do with it. — AP

Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023 – it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people’s science fiction fantasies of human-like machines.

Catalysing a year of AI fanfare was ChatGPT. The chatbot gave the world a glimpse of recent advances in computer science even if not everyone figured out quite how it works or what to do with it.