Personally, this continuous hype is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I need a break just from hearing about it.
And this is just starting, most businesses are now trying figure out how can they use it, and monetize it
Crypto, NFTs, 5G, metaverse, AR, VR... are yet to prove their widespread high productivity increase
OpenAI does not spend any money on marketing as far as I know. All this hype is through actual current usefulness and future usefulness.
If you're happy with your government; being able to know everything you spend your money on, being able to seize your assets, being able to freeze your bank accounts, being able to prevent you moving your money around, being able to invade your privacy to allow you to access your money, being able to control who you can and can't send your money to or receive money from... then crypto does probably seem like a scam and a ponzi scheme.
And, yes, of course, there are as many scammers and shitcoins out there as you can shake a stick at. Any "scheme" which can potentially generate cash will attract such people. Cryptocurrency is no different in this regard.
But, as I said, the basic concept is sound and something anyone who believes in personal freedom can get behind. And, if crypto is such a "bad thing", why are so many governments suddenly interested in developing their own digital currencies? It's almost like the whole "USA / Huawei, TikTok... etc." scenario all over again. This technology is evil.... up until "the man" invents his own version and takes control of it.
After using any of these chatbots for a while you realise that there is no real "intelligence" there. What there is, is a very impressive text-parsing engine combined with a very efficient search facility. But there's no nuance to the replies you get, no "personal" [or machine] opinion. It's just rapidly collated [and often tortuously balanced] data, quickly presented and nicely formatted.
The thing that suprised me most about ChatGPT et al is just how quickly everyone seemed to have one on offer. It seemed like one week we were all shaking our heads at the moronic stupidity of Alexa / Siri / etc.... and the next we had all these superficially much more intelligent and responsive AI chatbots to talk to.
Most of the "AI Powered" sites and applications that are springing up everywhere are based on ChatGPT [and I presume will be based on Bard too in future]. So are all essentially sharing the same dataset and programming biases.
One concern I have about this whole development is that it even further reduces the access to alternate views and non-mainstream controversial opinions. Microsoft has already integrated ChatGPT into Bing and I've been using standalone ChatGPT as a sort of pseudo search engine for a while now, as it's really handy for the kind of questions that you just want a quick answer to, without having to pick through a list of search results.
I do worry that, in future, pretty much all search on the web will take this form and these AIs will become the gatekeepers to knowledge in an even more prescriptive way than the current search giants are. I'm very uneasy about a future where our access the sum total of human knowledge and opinion is pre-filtered through the political and social biases of a clutch of pro-Western, pro-Capitalist west coast USA billionaires.