
It's been hard to ignore ChatGPT – the Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer – since OpenAI launched it publicly in November 2022. It's had a profound effect on everything from searching for information to novel writing, and the momentum behind it doesn't look like slowing down anytime soon.
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence engine, capable of producing text and images that look as though they were created by a human being. That's because it's been trained on vast amounts of data pulled from the web, enabling it to act like a sort of super-powerful autocorrect prediction system that knows what should go where.