ChatGPT is confronting, but humans have always adapted to new technology
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Adapting to technological advances is a defining part of 21st-century life. But it's not unique to us: it's been part of the human story since our earliest written records – even featuring in the plotlines of ancient myths and legends. While ChatGPT threatens to change writing (and writing-related work) as we know it, the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago (in a geographical area centred in modern-day Iraq), went through this kind of seismic change before us. Their civilisation is credited with the invention of writing. Living in changing times Just two months after launching in November 2022, OpenAI's ChatGPT has already reached an audience of over 100 million people. The large language model (LLM), sometimes called “autocomplete on steroids”, has drawn attention ...