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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Chris Stokel-Walker

ChatGPT on your iPhone? The four reasons why this is happening far too early

‘The technology needs to be better prepared for prime time.’
‘The technology needs to be better prepared for prime time.’ Photograph: Angga Budhiyanto/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Tech watchers and nerds like me get excited by tools such as ChatGPT. They look set to improve our lives in many ways – and hopefully augment our jobs rather than replace them.

But in general, the public hasn’t been so enamoured of the AI “revolution”. Make no mistake: artificial intelligence will have a transformative effect on how we live and work – it is already being used to draft legal letters and analyse lung-cancer scans. ChatGPT was also the fastest-growing app in history after it was released. That said, four in 10 Britons haven’t heard of ChatGPT, according to a recent survey by the University of Oxford, and only 9% use it weekly or more frequently.

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