How does Jane Austen present attitudes towards romance in Pride and Prejudice? What are the three main differences between the processes of mitosis and meiosis? How did the Nazi–Soviet Pact lead to World War Two?
Those are all GCSE questions from this year’s AQA exams that ChatGPT, the latest evolution in a family of text-generating artificial intelligence (AI), was able to answer in a matter of seconds — to varying success.
The chatbot, released last week by Elon Musk-founded tech firm OpenAI, scours vast swathes of the internet for answers to users’ questions. Unlike other AI bots, it spits out results in fluent, sophisticated language, which users are able to tailor to their desired length. And unlike other AI bots, it’s free.
The software has already been touted as a language-rich alternative to Google, boasting the ability to provide descriptions, answers and solutions to complex questions in lightning speed.
