The subtext is that it was a supposedly revolutionary thing that failed to actually change all that much besides creating a privacy hellhole and putting therapeutics out of work.

gotta love that torment nexus

For me, the interesting part about this whole boom is that yes, it’s a next word predicting bot all the way down, but if that hammer is strong enough than it will find significant nails to flatten.

I don't think so. I've seen the second coming of technology going all the way back to the ZX-80. What can you do with it? "Hey Google give me showtimes for Avatar" is something we've been at for what, ten years now? before that we were ten years of typing it. Before that we were 80 years of looking it up in the newspaper. It's fuckin' UI. My stove works the same as stoves have worked for a hundred years, it just sings a little Korean song to me when it's done preheating now.

The only thing ChatGPT can do is (A) answer questions (B) interpolate text. "give me the mathematical average of Harlan Ellison and Baked Alaska" is entertaining? But is it useful? Yeah I've seen the heartwarming landscaper story. Neat. Translation is likely to get better. That's a universal good. But I don't know if anyone in the tech industry has noticed but kids are either good at wrangling search or they're fucking technologically hopeless. My daughter figured out on her own how to use Booleans. The kid up the street couldn't find the manual for his 3d printer with an iPad.

So ChatGPT is gonna be a great crutch for the future handicapped I guess? "Hey Siri give me a soundtrack of rain and Friends jokes so I can go to sleep." That's not interesting.

This is interesting:

It's just a tool? And tools are only interesting in what you can make with them. Ain't nobody making interesting stuff in the Bing bar.