Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream. While prediction algorithms have been in use for decades, the release of applications such as OpenAI's ChatGPT3 -- and its rapid integration with Microsoft's Bing search engine -- may have unleashed the floodgates when it comes to user-friendly AI.
Within weeks of ChatGPT3's release, it had already attracted 100 million monthly users, many of whom have doubtless already experienced its dark side: from insults and threats to disinformation and a demonstrated ability to write malicious code.
