The real beauty of the chatGPT hype (as far as I am concerned) is that might make people slowly realize that the "tech" industry has not been delivering to them

The real beauty of the chatGPT hype (as far as I am concerned) is that might make people slowly realize that the "tech" industry has not been delivering to them the goods for a long time now. The Jini that is out of the bottle is that between the computing devices and capabilities that most people do have access to (and which do little more than slurp private data and surface clickbait) and computing devices that can do a reasonable imatitation of human language after parsing all existing text there is a universe of possibilities. Not in some future AI singularity, but now. chatGPT has leaked to the masses what smart fiddling with data and algorithms can already achieve. It suggests there is a range of sophisticated tools and algorithms and apps for personal and enterprise computing that could have been available but aren't. People will eventually tire of the AI religionists and the self-appointed protectors of humanity but the revelation that there is a value dividend that is not being distributed might shake some things up ;-)