Questions for the ChatGPT bot: Where will next mass shooting be? When will I die? Who was the Villisca axe murderer? Why is Iowa Iowa so Republican? And other matters of intrigue.
How does artificial intelligence weigh in on vexing and long unanswerable questions?
The robot is on my mind — or in my head. I’ll go back to relying on old-school, flesh-and-blood writing and reporting in the next Iowa Mercury posts, but the lure of the bot is strong. So I posed more queries and commands to the HAL of Our Times — ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence bot with rapidly advancing algorithms fe…