Meanwhile ChatGPT is already being hailed as the Google killer. People are using it to write essays and form opinions. Plenty of online and offline debates contains phrases from ChatGPT repeated verbatim. It's being adopted in newsrooms around the world. So what it is good for in theory and what people are actually using it for are worlds apart. IMO the technology is going to have its "self driving car kills pedestrian" moment very soon because of over-eager and careless users, and that is going to set the entire field back.
If you approach it with the right mindset, it’s extremely valuable.
The only Google-killing aspect of it is a better understanding of user queries.
Although given how often I have to remind it of the details of my questions, maybe it's not even good at that.
No, lack of ads. Before content marketing, Google was pretty useful
Add in all the automation of customer service via actually good Chatbots and lots of very cheap (and fairly high quality) copywriting and it seems world changing to me.
Reddit tends to be a second best bet, and the most upvoted is not always the best, on a busy thread some ‘real’ experts are usually a bit down with lengthy descriptions of their analysis.
Search is third, it’s quick but I do often need to append stackoverflow and reddit to get meaningful answers. I forgo Google completely more and more since the quality is so low, perhaps 2% of my queries go there tops.
A script which parses jaon for a specific key or transforming a table from y to z.
Now everyone has this available to them.
It's great already!
But underneath all the bullshit is something truly useful, so I wouldn't necessarily say that Confidently Incorrect™ is ChatGPT's primary ability.
Coincidentally, over the past few weeks of this ChatGPT craze, I've needed to create a lot of fake data to seed a database. Normally not a big deal, but these records need to have foreign keys pointing to one another. I wondered whether ChatGPT could help me out, so I briefly described the fields I needed, their format and data type, the type of information they contained, etc etc. It did it almost perfectly, and fixing the little errors was trivial. I was dreading having to do this because it's such a pain in the ass.
To me that kind of thing is going to be the most useful application. Everyone's freaking out (in both the "scared" and "excited" sense) over AI's ability to replace creativity, but I'm focused on it's ability to replace toil.