I don't know, I feel like as a programmer these technologies make a lot of sense. AIs like this have been being developed for so many decades it's not at all surprising that we are finally at a place where they feel like we're talking to another human. Though I have to admit it's still kind of scary, just not unbelievable.

Non programmers have been watching TV shows with fictional versions of these kind of systems for decades.

Programmers know that those things are impossible - so we're pretty amazed now that it turns out they aren't!

> have been watching TV shows with fictional versions of these kind of systems for decades.

While clearly there're outstandingly impressive things about GPT, from a casual glance a lot of the GPT stuff seems like a regurgitation of that fiction.

It reminds me of the joke about the world's greatest fraud; he didn't actually need to have committed the most impressive acts of fraud, he just needed to make people believe he did.

If such things can be measured, by an order of magnitude. It's like chopsticks that can play chopsticks.