Opinion: You could be forgiven for being weary and wary of “the next big thing” in tech. Yet, now in 2023, it is almost impossible to escape chatter about artificial intelligence, especially ChatGPT, the intelligent chatbot that has the world in a tizzy.
Punch in a query — for a restaurant, for a historical fact, or worse, some actual knowledge — and you’ll often get a results page full of sludge, ads, and hits that you may or not be looking for.You could be forgiven for being both weary and wary of “the next big thing” in tech. That refrain has not only become so common as to be almost meaningless, there have also seen a slew of times that such prognostications simply haven’t come to pass.
But the strange thing about ChatGPT is that it may in fact be both underappreciated and overhyped at the same time: that, on the one hand, it is clear it is not even close to being truly intelligent, while also being troubling in about a hundred ways; but on the other hand, it promises to be revolutionary all the same.
What differentiates ChatGPT from search or other forms of technology is that it can do a reasonably good job of synthesizing information and presenting it in a far more comprehensive way than a mere search result. Just this morning, I asked ChatGPT to tell me about the ills of English colonialism, and found multi-paragraph response detailing the exploitation, prejudice, and extraction of wealth to be remarkably complete.
The reason is that, quite simply, AI represents the automation of some parts of human thinking: simple analysis, synthesis, aggregation. That represents a sea change — and is something you might fairly call “the next big thing” in not just tech, but society at large.
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