A man sits at his laptop in a cafe in Manchester, England, on May 17, 2021. Jon Super/AP Photo.

The future is here and its author is ChatGPT

Meet ChatGPT, the nemesis of every person who assembles zeros and ones into pretty patterns for other people and expects to get paid for it. The innocuous-sounding chatbot has taken the internet by storm this month and could change the future forever.

People place poppies on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial following the National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa, on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press.

Forgetting to remember

No doubt there are countless young people wearing poppies because they know they are supposed to wear them so they don’t forget. But how do you forget something you never learned in the first place?