You likely have heard of ChatGPT, the new artificial intelligence tool taking the world (or at least the internet) by storm. ChatGPT is a variant of the GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) language model that was developed for generating human-like text in a conversational context. It is designed to generate natural language responses when given input from a user. Think of it like one of the chatbots you encounter on websites fused with Wikipedia. It is undeniably impressive and, admittedly, tons of fun.

With a few of the right prompts, the tool can generate poetry, build computer code, give practical (and sometimes flawed) advice, explain complex topics, and do students’ homework.