
Dystopian fears are never far when the conversation turns to advanced artificial intelligence. And even the CEO of the hottest A.I. company around right now says the tech’s future is a toss-up.
A.I. may have finally gone mainstream last November, when the San Francisco-based startup OpenAI followed up on its earlier success with text-to-image generator DALL-E 2 by launching its latest creation for the public to test out: ChatGPT, arguably the most advanced chatbot in existence. Trained on troves of data, the bot garnered a million users in a matter of days.