This article reviews the recent introduction of ChatGPT, a generative AI application developed by OpenAI and backed by Microsoft. It discusses the potential implications of the widespread use of this new AI tool, as well as the history of AI research, which began in the 1950s with work by mathematicians such as Merrill Flood. The article also considers what Norbert Weiner, the father of Cybernetics, might think of the current state of AI technology.