Life-changing chatbot...

THE arrival and impressive performance of the generative artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT has left the world stunned, but also wary of its impact. The chatbot is indeed remarkable - an all-knowing bot that can provide text-based responses to questions about complicated science, fulfil requests to write college-level essays, and much more. Such an AI tool can be used across industries. Specifically, academics and journalists can use it to produce written work that is researched and structured. In fact, some Western media outlets are already experimenting with this technology, with varying degrees of success. One outlet experimented with the bot to determine whether it could 'efficiently assist' their journalists in using publicly available facts to create content. The results were impressive, but required fact-checking, proofreading and editing by journalists. Still, they provided a window into a future where bots could overtake large functions of a journalist's job. A study published in Finance Research Letters showed that ChatGPT could be successfully used to write a finance paper fit for an...