The way we use computers will change forever

Go back five years and ask yourself what you would feel is dramatically different about how you do your work. I bet you’d not really envisage much change in the tools you use and the way of working. But then on 30 November 2022, Sam Altman posted a Tweet with the innocuous post: today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: chat.openai.com Suddenly the world was exposed to a magical new thing called a Large Language Model. Nobody really knew that GPT meant Generative Pre-trained Transformer, and nor did they care. “ChatGPT” was a phrase that came to everyone’s consciousness in everyday conversation. Now the computer could talk like us. We could use it to write an email, complete assignments and look up facts about the world. As the chatbots got more commonplace, our comfort of writing a prompt and watching as the result streamed out became commonplace. Then they started to do more than respond. They can write code, think longer, research the web and use our computer. Sounds…