In speaking of technological paradigms shifts, Chat GPT is to the millennials and Gen Z users what we thought, as the first generation of internet users, Google would be like.
When I first started searching the internet, users had to type in plus signs, minus signs and equals signs for associations between words and phrases. Even with this associative addition there would be a long list of randomness in the search results.
This is when the first bots appeared in an effort to organize, store and regurgitate the results.
A coherent result, even though there are many bug to be worked out, a semblance of an explanation of a subject is what AI returns for your prompt in the new Chat GPT app. Bots are ubiquitous now. I was actually surprised when a real person answered the phone when I was paying my electric bill a few weeks ago because the phone auto pay site was down. I had not heard an actual person at the end of this line for years, maybe decades?
Once AI technology is properly harnessed if at all possible, this will signal a new era and will change us forever – much in the same way the internet changed us. The invention of the internet was the catalyst for the changes in in the 80s and 90s. Social media was the catalyst for change in the 2000s and 2010s.
AI is the catalyst for the changes soon to come!
But, what if it will not be able to be harnessed like we think? There are already claims of intimidation and strange responses from these AI apps.
I tried asking Chat GPT a few questions; and although I do see its limitations, this new platform is far more advanced than Google was when it arrived on the scene.
Bots have come a long way, Baby!