People have been publishing interactions with the dialogue-optimised artificial intelligence ChatGPT. See this subreddit for several examples, and this memorable one.
A friend asked me what applications I thought we’d make with the technology. Here’s what I think we’ll see (along with scores others):
I think ELI5s are going to be transformed. Learning in general. Manuals.
Perhaps a renaissance in written porn.
Cold call emails are going to become highly personalised if marketers point your LinkedIn profile and public posts to the algorithm
Parallel to porn – always a pioneer – engaging stories for kids will be auto generated. Combined with dall-e, stable diffusion and other visual art generators, entire books will be generated on demand. A new one every evening
And while we are some time away, ultimately we will ask it questions to intractable problems. Court cases. The Middle East problem. Questions of morality.
Update 12 December 2022:
Well that didn’t take long: