ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI), has opened the world’s eyes to the incredible abilities of AI technology. Bill Gates and Google CEO Sundar Pichai hail AI technology as the ‘most important’ innovation of our time, while Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and the late Stephen Hawking believe it poses a ‘profound risk to society and humanity’. This article looks at some of the biggest successes and failures of AI technology, such as ChatGPT, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), Amazon Alexa, and Daniel White.