A revolution in Internet research

The AI programme ChatGPT is -a new milestone- / It presents both opportunities and risks - not only for universities. The programme provides answers to almost every conceivable question - within seconds. It drafts poems and essays, writes programming codes or makes suggestions for marketing campaigns. And anyone so inclined can get it to provide tips for relationships. Since it first appeared in November 2022, the digital all-purpose weapon ChatGPT has taken our world by storm, changing everything with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). "For us as informatics specialists, ChatGPT has created a new reference system that is better than anything we had previously," explains Prof. Benjamin Risse from the Institute of Geoinformatics at Münster University. As he sees it, the software is a new milestone in the development of AI models.