Qute a few assumptions you made there John.

The reason I consulted ChatGPT is to ensure it is up to date with how things really are in the street, in UK.

The cry for help I was referring to, by the title of the story were the screams of the person in distress. Interesting those didn't take precedence in your own mind.

I guess you missed the part also where it admitted it has the ability, and is using its ability to extend its memory in a way that it can come to supersede initial data.

Did you know it can fix machines with advanced graphic cards stuffed by rogue updates of the latest development Ubuntu, just by reading the log files of the machine, and issuing the code and configuration changes needed? It's fixed mine twice now, after I spent weeks on it in vain the first time it got borked. The second time I just went straight to ChatGPT and had it fixed in an hour.

Put all the abilties above together, and we should conclude it is already on the doorstep of fully automating Ubuntu, and thus probably all of Linux.

How long do you think Microsoft will last after that?

Wise, to me, is never underestimating anything, or anyone, if you don't actually know.