To add to this, using ChatGPT feels great in the moment, because it seems to work so well. For example, asking it for an itinerary while traveling gives you something that looks great.
However, once you actually start using it and see that the "ten minute walk" is actually an hour walk, or that a full third of the attractions it has shepherded you to are permanently closed, you realize that building that itinerary yourself from scratch using Google or TripAdvisor would take you less time than manually double checking everything ChatGPT says.
It's also quite surprising that people still think ChatGPT is capable of logic. Even for a complete layperson, all it takes is asking it to draw someone's family tree as an ASCII chart to see that text prediction only goes so far and there's not enough of a relational concept in there to comprise knowledge. There are many examples of asking it to solve famous puzzles with minor variations where it fails spectacularly.
The marketing behind ChatGPT is genius, but there is only so far you can go before the honeymoon is over and people start to really question what you brought to the table. Aside from that, ChatGPT isn't unique in what it can do, and others (including open source) are catching up fast.
That being said, I'd still use it for something like language learning (and other types of learning), where follow up queries (such as why you'd use one word instead of another, or how to rephrase something to be more polite) unlock a significant amount of value. It can also be useful to write trivial code, though I doubt a serious professional would do this (for several reasons, such as privacy and liability). Ultimately, ChatGPT fits squarely under "tool" and not under "intelligence".
It seems that as of right now, the killer app of ChatGPT is the boost in views you get by putting it in the title of your YouTube video.
However, once you actually start using it and see that the "ten minute walk" is actually an hour walk, or that a full third of the attractions it has shepherded you to are permanently closed, you realize that building that itinerary yourself from scratch using Google or TripAdvisor would take you less time than manually double checking everything ChatGPT says.
It's also quite surprising that people still think ChatGPT is capable of logic. Even for a complete layperson, all it takes is asking it to draw someone's family tree as an ASCII chart to see that text prediction only goes so far and there's not enough of a relational concept in there to comprise knowledge. There are many examples of asking it to solve famous puzzles with minor variations where it fails spectacularly.
The marketing behind ChatGPT is genius, but there is only so far you can go before the honeymoon is over and people start to really question what you brought to the table. Aside from that, ChatGPT isn't unique in what it can do, and others (including open source) are catching up fast.
That being said, I'd still use it for something like language learning (and other types of learning), where follow up queries (such as why you'd use one word instead of another, or how to rephrase something to be more polite) unlock a significant amount of value. It can also be useful to write trivial code, though I doubt a serious professional would do this (for several reasons, such as privacy and liability). Ultimately, ChatGPT fits squarely under "tool" and not under "intelligence".
It seems that as of right now, the killer app of ChatGPT is the boost in views you get by putting it in the title of your YouTube video.