The technology company OpenAI released a generative artificial intelligence program that can create detailed written responses, write essays, poetry, code, and much more, in response to short written prompts. It had been years in the making and had been exposed to over 40 gigabytes of text, webpages, images, and other content. ChatGPT is a large language model that would generate human-like responses to prompts, that it was created by OpenAI and was based on the GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) architecture, which uses deep learning techniques to generate natural language text that is similar to text written by humans. Michael M. Yell, who has had a four-decade career in the secondary classroom and now as a teacher of adults in university and workshop settings, analyzes ChatGPT by posing questions to it and evaluates how it can be used in social studies classrooms.