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preface
“O brave new world, that has such people in it!” That quote is from William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and is spoken by the child Miranda when she encounters a crowd of people for the first time. You’re unlikely to have been banished to a remote island as a child, but you may still find yourself echoing Miranda’s words when you encounter any of the current crop of artificial intelligence (AI) apps for the first time. It’s a brave new world, indeed, that has such chatbots in it.
Tools such as ChatGPT seem wondrous at first because they appear to be quite good at putting words together. Ask ChatGPT to Write a Shakespearean sonnet that summarizes the plot of Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road", and it will comply. No, the ...
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