Chatting the chat

AI promises to be a boon for business, but new tech doesn’t magically bring more profits

Ned

THERE REALLY IS NOTHING worse than an old man with a new toy. Rather belatedly, I have discovered the joys of ChatGPT — the artificial intelligence speech thingy which rather more hip columnists have long been banging on about. And since then, I have been conjuring merry mayhem. The head of government relations was horrified when I used my own computer-generated talking points at a recent Commons meeting instead of his turgid, acronym-clogged script. A friend who had begged me to get an internship for his pot-smoking son was surprised to receive a closely argued memo on the “separation of the personal and professional spheres”. My new AI butler even came up with handy excuses for declining an invitation to Henley from a boorish client. But he may have smelt…

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