Maybe I’m just old, but there just isn’t much that I want to computers to tell me about that they don’t already do a decent job at. Everyone loves to complain a

Maybe I’m just old, but there just isn’t much that I want to computers to tell me about that they don’t already do a decent job at. Everyone loves to complain about how bad Google search is, but I very rarely find myself desperately looking for something and unable to find it. There’s certainly no normal conversational interactions I can think of that I would love to have with a computer but have been unable to before ChatGPT and similar. That limits how impressed I can be by ChatGPT and similar beyond just being impressed by it on a purely technical level. And it’s certainly very technically impressive, but not in some transcendental way. It’s also very impressive how could recent video games with ray tracing look, or how good computers are at chess, or how many really cool databases there are these days, or how fast computers can sort data.