A 2025 survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults found only 34 percent had ever used ChatGPT.

The capabilities of GenAI are accelerating exponentially.

Experimenting with GenAI, such as ChatGPT, can increase one's GenAI knowledge and skills.

In the autumn of 1990, in a course I was teaching, I queried my students: “How many of you have heard of the Internet? If so, please raise your hand.” Twenty-five students stared at me. No hands went up. There was no Amazon, no Google, no Facebook, no social media. Internet interface mostly used text-based protocols. Public access to the World Wide Web was still three years away.

Within a decade, the Internet was transforming businesses, communities, and our personal lives. In the first decade of the 21st century, cellphones grew exponentially, then smartphones. In 2007, Steve Jobs gave us the first iPhone. Today, smartphones are ubiquitous. For hundreds of years, new generations lived much as the generations preceding them. That has changed. The pace and impact of technological developments have accelerated. We are currently in the early years of another technological revolution—generative artificial intelligence—GAI.

How much do you know about this type of AI? These machine learning models have been trained on........

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