Report: AI is smarter than a person, sometimes

Billions of dollars have been pumped into AI startups hoping to use the technology to transform a wide range of industries, but concerns have also growing over the technology’s ability to disrupt our life and work. — Image by freepik

Tens of billions of dollars have poured into AI companies looking to use the technology to revolutionise everything from medicine to education over the past year. But concerns about the technology – both its power and potential to disrupt work and life – have also grown.

A report released Monday by Stanford University shows just how much those possibilities, and very real worries, have come to the fore since OpenAI launched its ChatGPT chatbot that sent the artificial intelligence industry into overdrive.