Have you ever typed your name into the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT?
That question was posed at a recent office brainstorming meeting, and it hung in the air like smoke from a bottle rocket. A couple of people nodded, but nobody answered the question.
My reading of the room was that nobody had looked in the AI mirror yet, but that everybody was about to.
As soon as the meeting was over, I rushed to sign up for ChatGPT, and then I nervously typed in: Tell me about Mark Kennedy, Times Free Press columnist.
I had just watched the rerun of a “60 Minutes” segment that showed smart people agreeing that AI is about to change the world — if, that is, it doesn’t ruin it first. How such AI “ruin” will come is hazy.