With hindsight, 2022 will be seen as the year when artificial intelligence gained street credibility.
The release of ChatGPT by the San Francisco-based research laboratory OpenAI garnered great attention and raised even greater questions.
In just its first week, ChatGPT attracted more than a million users and was used to write computer programs, compose music, play games and take the bar exam. Students discovered that it could write serviceable essays worthy of a B grade — as did teachers, albeit more slowly and to their considerable dismay.