Artificial intelligence and ChatGPT— I’m not jumping on the bandwagon

Is this how you grow old? Am I growing old? Instead of feeling excited and giving credit when it’s due, I’m grumpy. Not indifferent. I am skeptical and borderline frustrated.

On metaverse don’t even get me started. It’s all bullshit. Sure, there will be practical uses in some industries, but as some mainstream activity that Mark Zuckerberg fantasizes about — no fucking way. We might be addicted to our devices, but I don’t see many people enjoying living their life in some semi-real world. Some perverts maybe.

On cryptocurrencies, well — it’s a mess already and I’m delighted to see this overhyped topic turn into a chaos.

Now onto ChatGPT. Of course, I played with it. It’s impressive. I mean compared to Apple’s idiotic Siri who half of the time doesn’t respond correctly to my navigation questions or instructions to fast-forward songs, it’s really smart. And I should be generous to ChatGPT, not just compare it to Siri. As I said it’s impressive. I asked it to come up with a few stories and it did come up with coherent narratives. I asked to write a song in the style of Radiohead and it did (it was all gloom!).

Now I’m seeing headlines about how the next version ChatGPT will be based on X gazillions of parameters versus Y gazillions currently.

Instead of feeling astonished, I feel bored. B-O-R-I-N-G. And I hear it will be built into Microsoft's office. Wow. Wow. Wow. I can’t wait to spend my…