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The Challenge to Humanity From ChatGPT

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The OpenAI logo and ChatGPT website, Feb. 26. Photo: Jakub Porzycki/Zuma Press Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher are luminaries whose words deserve to be taken seriously (“ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution,” op-ed, Feb. 25). But their central thesis, that a computer program could “transform the human cognitive process” in a way tantamount to … Read more

ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution

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A new technology bids to transform the human cognitive process as it has not been shaken up since the invention of printing. The technology that printed the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 made abstract human thought communicable generally and rapidly. But new technology today reverses that process. Whereas the printing press caused a profusion of modern … Read more