What is ChatGPT?

If you found this blog by searching online, artificial intelligence brought you here. AI, as it’s universally known, is all around us from online virtual assistants to systems that tell farmers when to sow and reap their crops.

But there’s a new tech kid in town: an AI tool that cannot only hold a human-like conversation with you but will admit its mistakes, correct your false assumptions and, maybe even one day, write articles like this one?

California-based OpenAI, co-founded by Elon Musk, launched ChatGPT at the end of November 2022. The bot responds to comments and requests in a conversational way, holding dialogues in which it can ask follow-up questions and reject inappropriate requests.