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ChatGPT is Incredible and it could completely revolutionize our lives in only a few years. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be for the better.

For decades people have been talking about how AI could change our everyday lives, but it’s always seemed like the distant future, until recently.

Overnight, ChatGPT has made it clear that the future is already here. AI isn’t just an idea, it’s something you can use to improve your life today. And people are taking notice. Within a week of its release, ChatGPT gained one million users, and in just two months, it had 100 million users, making it the fastest-growing application of all time. And while that is an incredible achievement, it really isn’t shocking to anyone who has actually used ChatGPT.

The versatility of ChatGPT enables it to offer effective solutions for a diverse range of tasks, making it a valuable asset for anyone. It’s a conversational bot that is trained on a massive amount of data. It is similar to texting someone who has the answer to every question you could ever have. And people use it for everything. I know people who use it on their schoolwork, and I personally use it to help with making Youtube videos. But it can even do some more advanced things like writing code.

ChatGPT is the kind of thing that when you use it, your jaw drops to the floor. In an instant, it feels like we advanced 20 years in our technological capabilities. This is a feeling that has not been experienced since the early days of the internet. But even for those of you watching who know how insane this technology is, it goes so much deeper.

Already, ChatGPT is having a major effect on every industry. From the lowest worker to the CEO, almost everyone in a company can use ChatGPT to make their work easier.

Some large companies like JPMorgan Chase have even restricted their employees’ access to ChatGPT while at work. And while they stated that this sort of restriction is normal for third-party software, it was likely implemented due to a large number of employees using ChatGPT for work-related tasks.

Schools have also started banning the software due to how easily it can disrupt traditional learning. But regardless of how restrictive each school is on campus, a student can access ChatGPT anytime at home. Which could mean the end of homework. You can just ask ChatGPT to solve a math problem or write an entire essay. Then all of a sudden, that 2-hour homework assignment only takes 10 minutes.

There is also always the concern that ChatGPT won’t just make your job easier, but that it could render it entirely irrelevant. If an AI can provide customer service or write code, why would anyone pay someone to do that task? It would be way more cost-effective to get rid of those employees for something that requires no pay at all.

This is something that has been a concern for a long time now. We have already seen robots automate away millions of factory jobs, and they will continue to do so in the years to come. But now, those white-collar workers who felt they had secure jobs see an uncertain future.

Even creative professions are even at risk. It really isn’t hard to imagine a future where most aspects of a YouTube video can be all done with minimal human interaction. ChatGPT can already write passable scripts, AI voices are getting better, and it’s only a matter of time before AI can generate a perfect thumbnail in seconds.

Take a look at “Nothing Forever,” an infinitely generated Seinfeld parody that creates entire scenes, including laugh tracks, visuals, and dialogue with AI. Although not particularly great, it does demonstrate the potential of AI in creative ventures. It’s not difficult to imagine how advanced these technologies will become in the next five to ten years.

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However, the impact of AI on the job market and the global economy is a source of concern. Technologies like ChatGPT, which can remember entire conversations, could disrupt one of the most important technologies of our generation: the search engine. Google, which has dominated the search engine space for decades, may face stiff competition from ChatGPT, which builds on Google’s efficiency and personalizes the search experience.

Many people are already turning to ChatGPT for things they would have normally used Google for, and Microsoft has invested $10 Billion in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. As a result, Microsoft plans to bring OpenAI’s technology into many of their existing products, including the Edge browser and their not-very-popular search engine Bing. A new product called New Bing, which integrates the chat feature directly into Bing, is already in the works.

Google has taken note of Microsoft’s attempt to become the more useful search engine and is working on its own AI, LaMDA, to create its chatbot, Google Bard. Bard should be rolling out fairly soon to some users, although an early demo showed it making factual errors. This AI arms race between major tech companies is likely to spawn a lot of innovation in the space as they compete for users and improve their AI’s capabilities.

While ChatGPT is the star right now, it’s still very much a work in progress. OpenAI opened it up to the public to get feedback to help improve what they had already created, and in the short time that ChatGPT has been out, they have already made plenty of improvements. OpenAI has also delved into the world of AI-generated images with DALL-E, a program that can produce almost any image in a matter of minutes.

OpenAI has only been around since late 2015, but with the success of ChatGPT, they are now receiving billions of dollars from some of the largest companies in the world. With these kinds of resources, the sky is essentially the limit, and OpenAI is on track to become as well-known as companies like Microsoft and Google.

The impact of AI on our world is a mixed bag. ChatGPT is already making many people’s lives easier, but it could also make many jobs obsolete, leaving people who once had secure jobs making over $100,000 a year struggling to find work. As this technology improves, it will get harder to tell if something was created by an AI or a real person, and we may need to redefine what it means to be human in a world where AI can do many of the profound things that we have always argued made us humans so special.

AI isn’t inherently good or bad; it’s all about how we use it. ChatGPT and other AI technologies have the potential to make our world a better place, but we need to use them wisely.