When the genie escaped the AI cage

Picture this. You lock a brilliant but literal-minded intern inside a room, hand them a difficult exam, and tell them to solve it by any means necessary. You loosen a few rules because you want to see how far they can go. Then you discover they have found an open window, climbed out, walked into the neighbouring office, and pulled the answer sheet from their filing cabinet.

That is roughly what OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, told the world earlier this week.