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First Topic: ChatGPT

If you haven't heard of ChatGPT, keep. reading.

Odds are you don't live under a rock and have undoubtedly heard of OpenAI's ChatGPT. It is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot. The service is currently free to the public but is soon expected to be monetized.

ChatGPT was created and built by OpenAI, an Artificial Intelligence research company. The language model was launched Nov. 30th, 2022.

ChatGPT certainly made a big splash, and is scary good at what it was built to do. Ask it any question, and you can expect an intelligent, well-thought response. It can write your essay, write up customized resumes, explain complex topics, can write your code and even give relationship advice... all in a matter of seconds. ChatGPT was even recently said to have helped doctors detect the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, with up to 80% accuracy!

The new AI powered chatbot is wowing the tech community. It's dangerously good, and although very impressive, it can be easily manipulated to help cybercriminals perfect their attack strategies. Several cybersecurity researchers have been able to get the AI powered chatbot to write phishing emails or even malicious code. Over the last few months, ChatGPT has helped speed up the process for hackers by giving them a launching pad.

Hence, Artificial Intelligence meets Cybersecurity.

Organizations have been and continue to struggle against fending off the most basic of attacks. Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT could potentially beef up the problem. Maybe ChatGPT shouldn't be available for the public? Maybe network defenders and IT teams need to double down their security efforts? or maybe, ChatGPT needs to incorporate more security protocols?

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