Just like with most of these hype cycles there is an actual useful interesting technology, but the hype beasts take it way overboard and present it as if it's the holy grail or whatever. It's not.
That's tiring, and really annoying.
It's incredibly cool technology, it is great at certain use cases, but those use cases are somewhat limited. In case of GPT-3 it's good at generative writing, summarization, information search and extraction, and similar things.
It also has plenty of issues and limitations. Lets just be realistic about it, apply it where it works, and let everything else be. Now it's becoming a joke.
Also, a lot of products I've seen in the space are really really bad and I'm kinda worried AI will get a scam/shitty product connotation.
I agree with this, I feel like I've seen a lot of really cool technology get swept up in a hype storm and get carried away into oblivion.
I wonder what ways there are for the people who put out these innovations to shield them/their products from it?
Luckily I have a lot of faith in the OpenAI people - I hope their shielding themselves from the technological form of audience capture.