This week we revisit threads from a month ago, a year ago, and 12 years ago.

• ChatGPT references a non-existent book
• AI generating news articles
• Cryptocurrency miners in Texas forced to shut down due to electricity shortage
• Lament for a future that could have been: A Web presence for every …

This week we jump into the world of chat-bots driven by new artificial intelligence language models. The pace of announcements about general-purpose tools driven by large training sets of texts or images has quickened, and the barrier to experimenting with these tools has dropped. There are now fully-functional websites where …