ChatGPT and a Magic 8 ball control my day: Which one makes better choices?

OPINION:

Last week, things became unhinged. I brought a Magic 8 Ball, downloaded ChatGPT and decided to let the daily schedule go rogue.

With AI seemingly taking over the world, it feels only natural that at age 26, and after a good many years of deciding exactly how my day should go, I relinquish all control to a language model-based chatbot that may or may not make my life just that little bit easier.

Of course, that alone doesn’t feel very unhinged, so upon a “how crazy can we make this?” brainstorm and leaning into our Buzzfeed era with my editor, we decided a Magic 8 Ball had to be…