Hi.

So everyone has been banging on about this ChatGPT AI system and I thought I might weigh in on my thoughts.

In case you don't know, ChatGPT is a new AI model by OpenAI. You know, those crazy cats who made the computers draw weird pictures so you can insult your friends with them or what have you.

I played around with it for a while and my mind was racing for use cases for something like it. It is like no AI you have ever interacted with. Anything you say to it is responded to with perfect grammar and I rarely got any nonsense from it. It can write stories, poems essays and code. And I am sure many more things. The code part I was particularly interested in so I have an anecdote about it:

I was at work and I was doing some task that required me to go through a list and pair all of the elements. I could do this, but it would have taken me 15 minutes and probably been buggy as all heck. So I thought I'd as ChatGPT to take a stab at it. And a stab it took. Within three seconds, I had a lovely python function that did exactly what was required.

I think it is difficult to overstate the significance of a tool like this. The number of industries and markets that will be disrupted is staggering. Anyone that uses language in some way is vulnerable to the change which is everyone. If they put it behind a paywall, OpenAI will become our new overlords: potentially even bringing Google to their proverbial knees.

If they make it open source, as cool as it will be, the sheer volume of unethical actors using it for evil will be staggering. Imagine the elderly people it could trick into giving credit card information? My imagination is coming up with no other examples at this time, but let me list off a bunch of examples the bot gave me:

Fair call

That took less than ten seconds to produce. It's scary. I'm going to say it now so I can refer everyone back to my ancient blog post from back when humans wrote them:

This technology is going to change the way we live in the very near future.

Justin Lillico - The Prophet

For better or worse is yet to be seen.

PS: this whole thing was revised by AI.

A revision from the AI master race.