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ChatGPT is still a novelty. People will kick tires etc but utility is just not there yet.



Similar statements have been made about most dominant technology when it was in its infancy. You are not wrong, but it can quickly go from novelty to necessity once folks start to rely on it.


Do you see yourself relying on it? Not when you know it’s KNOWN to give wrong answers.

It’s also worth mentioning that Google PageRank was not the first search engine. No, it was good 4-5 years after the first usable search engine came to market. I think the same will be true for AI chat.


It excels at conversational style pedagogy when exploring new topics.


How can you say that with a straight face? It’s a regurgitation of things it’s collected from the WWW. It is a step up from Siri/Alexa but completely lacks actual conversational skills.


You've just described most actual human conversation on the internet.


If you don't put in an honest effort to give it a shot, you will remain forever confused why people find tech like this useful for some use cases and you don't.


People said Galileo was a crank, supposedly. But they also said that about the crank raving at the bus station. That people have been wrong about how transformative or not a technology would be in the past really tells us nothing.


Similar statements have been made about metaverse too.




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