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What is ChatGPT, the viral social media AI?

By Pranshu Verma and Rachel Lerman

06 Dec 2022 · 4 min read

A new artificial intelligence chatbot has taken the internet by storm. Humans are asking it questions, and it's sending answers back that are eerily lifelike, chatty, sometimes humorous and at other times unsettling and problematic.

The technology, made by the same organization that launched the text-to-image generator Dall-E to the public, has already amassed over a million users since it was released last week, company officials said.

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