ChatGPT, the Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is all the rage.  Speculation abounds on the technologies applications and who might be de-careered because of it.    The analytics working group at MESA has an informative discussion on what ChatGPT is today and how technology like ChatGPT may be applied across manufacturing, especially when challenged with synthesizing massive amounts of industrial data.  As a natural language user interface, tools like ChatGPT may help enable collaborative knowledge management systems and interactive, prescriptive analytics.