A Braver New World? Of chatbots and other cognoscenti

J Biosci. 2023:48:10.

Abstract

The 1920s mark the rise of robots in the human lexicon. Karel Capek, a Czech playwright, wrote R. U. R., which stands for Rossumovi Univerzalnı Roboti or Rossum's Universal Robots. The word for worker or labourer in Czech is robota; Karel was given the idea for this word by his artist brother Josef, and the word robot for a humanmanufactured humanoid entity was born in 1920. November 30, 2022, just over a century later, was when ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), a chat robot, chatter bot or advanced chatbot, was made available by the company OpenAI for free download.

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Robotics
  • Software*