Did George Mallory climb Everest in 1924? I asked ChatGPT for an answer

Some of you may have heard about ChatGPT, the Elon Musk-funded chatbot that was launched to the public last month to much fanfare (although he has since left the project to concentrate on winding down Twitter).

ChatGPT is a web tool that you can type natural-language questions into and get scarily human-like answers back again. It has been trained using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning techniques with terabytes of information fed into it.

If you believe the hype then you may be ...