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ai blues Several years ago, while casting around for a column idea on a cold Sunday afternoon in December, I decided to interview Chatbot 3.0 partly as an experiment, mostly as a joke. My expectations were low because AI had been perpetually “ten years away” since the turn of the century. However, I was immediately taken aback by the bot’s flawless grammar and amused by its clever answers. In less than an hour it had generated a just okay column in response to my questions. I cut a couple of sentences and “An Interview With ChatGPT (12/18/2022)” ran otherwise