This is a fundamental shift that we're setting coming out of 2021-2022 and it's incredible.
I don't know what the next wave of the internet will look like but i'm actually excited because ChatGPT+DallE is making a whole space a commodity. People will need to learn how to adapt and unlike the previous shifts, it's not immediately obvious to me how things will net out.
I'll be the first to pay tribute to our Skynet overlord.
One immediately and obviously has thousands of use cases while one we are still trying to figure out the use case 13 years later.
Give it a few generations and I honestly don't know if I am reading this board anymore as opposed to just discussing things with the AI assistant.
If anything it is exactly why crypto is such bullshit. Something that is revolutionary doesn't need much convincing. If anything chatGPT reminds me of Myspace. All of the sudden everyone is just using it. No need for all kinds of childish and naive readings of Rothbard and Mises to convince people of its utility.
Eh, isn't that what the technological singularity people would say would happen?
Way back in the day I'd hear people go "oh the internet won't amount to anything, it's just a fad", and while I didn't know what the internet would become, I believed they were totally wrong. The internet was very useful.
Back in the very early days of bitcoin, back when I thought it was potentially useful but that people was highly confused if it was going to escape regulatory issues. When the bitcoin hype cycle started I knew people that knew nothing about blockchain were spouting dumb shit and that it would eventually end in a bust. Now, in my typical fashion I underestimated how dumb people can be on things like this and didn't keep the few bitcoins I had back in the early days and lost access to them missing out on a few hundred thousand dollars at the peak.
When looking at the different GPT-like models coming out I actually see useful products that can be made from technologies like this. For example there is one on the front page called 'universal summarizer' that can take a large body of text and turn it into a small and seemingly accurate summary. That is worth something for sure. The ChatGPT is presenting useful information to some of its users too. The biggest question about it's long term success is cost of operation. If that drops over time then GPT and whatever comes after that will be here to stay no matter what you think about hype cycles.