Irish Examiner View: Landmark in artificial intelligence progress

ChatGPT, or more advanced successors, may come to influence not just academia or teaching but politics, law, or journalism

Teachers fear pupils will rely on ChatGPT to generate answers to questions they set, but there are implications for many other areas.

Science fiction fans ponder when exactly "the singularity" will occur; the tipping point when technology in all its forms becomes so powerful that it takes over society. 

In popular culture this often means non-optimal results for human beings, as devotees of Matrix and Terminator  film franchises can attest.