ChatGPT isn’t a great leap forward, it’s an expensive deal with the devil | John Naughton

The new chatbot is generating a lot of hype, but we would do well to consider its human and environmental costSometimes, those who would forget history are condemned to repeat it. For those of us with long memories, the current fuss – nay hysteria – surrounding ChatGPT (and “generative AI” generally) rings a bell.We have been here before: in January 1966, to be precise. That was the moment when Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist at MIT, unveiled Eliza, which would ha