Irish Examiner View: Rising to the challenge of artificial intelligence

If AI bots such as ChatGPT can produce the answers to university assignments, there is less incentive for students to acquire knowledge and independent learning skills.

File Picture of a man searching for information using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI.

In any set of forecasts of what technological advances we may experience in 2023, one subject remains consistently in the headlines — the inexorable rise of robot brainpower, also known as artificial intelligence.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review, run by exactly the sort of people who like to ponder such things, declares: “This is the year of the AI artists. Software models developed by Google, OpenAI, and others can now generate stunning artworks based on just a few text prompts.