The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel | John Naughton

A new AI-assisted chatbot that can generate eerily fluent prose is only the latest in a long series of useful tech accessoriesSo the ChatGPT language processing model burst upon an astonished world and the air was rent by squeals of delight and cries of outrage or lamentation. The delighted ones were those transfixed by discovering that a machine could apparently carry out a written commission competently. The outrage was triggered by fears of redundancy on the part of people whose employment re