OpenAI’s ChatGPT is able to provide convincingly human responses to questions. OpenAI is the creator of popular image generation tool Dall-E and the chatbot ChatGPT. In 2019 Microsoft invested $1bn (£808m) in the company, founded by Elon Musk and tech investor Sam Altman.Microsoft has announced a multi-year, multibillion dollar investment in artificial intelligence (AI) as it extends its partnership with OpenAI. Announcing the extended partnership, the firm said it believed AI would have an “impact at the magnitude of the personal computer, the internet, mobile devices and the cloud”. Why is Microsoft investing literally in any promising technology ?

