Nine ways that text-generating AIs will probably change the world in the next ten years

Image generated by the A.I. DALL·E 2 using the prompt "A robot hand drawing itself by MC Escher"
Note (March 26, 2023): I first wrote this list on December 3, 2022. Since then, GPT-4 has come out, and several of the points in this list are closer to happening. For example, point #2 is partly true already, thanks to Bing Chat (which runs on GPT-4). Here are nine ways I think that AIs that generate text (like GPT-3) will have a >50% chance of changing the world for the better and worse in the next ten years: #1: The internet will get flooded with AI-written articles, and...
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