This artificial intelligence bot can answer questions and create essays and program machines. But be cautious about how much you trust it.

There's a new AI bot in town: ChatGPT, and even if you're not into artificial intelligence, you'd best pay attention.

The program, from a big player in artificial intelligence called OpenAI, allows you to enter inquiries using normal English, to which the chatbot offers conversational, albeit slightly stiff, replies. The bot recalls the thread of your interaction, utilizing past inquiries and replies to determine its future responses. Its responses are obtained from large quantities of information on the internet.

It's a major thing. The tool looks fairly competent in areas where there are good training data for it to learn from. It's not omniscient or clever enough to replace all humans yet, but it can be creative, and its replies can seem very authoritative. A few days after its introduction, more than a million individuals were testing out ChatGPT.

But its inventor, the for-profit research group called OpenAI, cautions that ChatGPT "may sometimes create false or misleading information," so be cautious. Here's a look at why ChatGPT is significant and what's going on with it.

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