Editor, News-Register:

I’d previously written on this subject in April 2023, when I sent a letter written with the help of an early chat program. Two years later, the technology has moved much faster than most people expected.

Since then, the biggest advances have been in how well these systems can handle long projects, understand images and speech, and connect to everyday tools. Programs can now generate documents, charts, or lesson plans with few errors, and can take direction from voice or uploaded files instead of just typed text.

By the end of 2026, we’ll likely see AI built into most office and creative software, able to read or summarize entire workspaces. Video generation will probably reach commercial quality, and personal tutoring systems will start appearing in schools.

I’ve even spent much of the past month building an entire board game through an ongoing dialogue with AI–something that would’ve been nearly impossible to manage in 2023.

This updated letter is, of course, also written by AI, and it only took four prompts to generate it.

Via ChatGPT

Prompted by Joshua Phillips

McMechen