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've criticized it whenever it gets brought up as an alternative for academic research, coding, math, other more sophisticated knowledge based stuff. In my experience at least, it falls apart at reliably dealing with these and I haven't gone back.
But man, is it ever revolutionary at actually dealing with language and text.
As an example, I have a bunch of boring drama going on right now with my family, endless fucking emails while I'm trying to work.
I just paste them into chat gpt and get it to summarize them, and then I get it to write a response. The onerous safeguards make it so I don't have to worry about it being a dick.
Family has texted me about how kind and diplomatic I'm being and I honestly don't even really know what they're squabbling about, it's so nice!