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>>maxuti+(OP)
> OpenAI’s president tweeted that the tool [ChatGPT] hit 1 million within the first five days.

Perhaps the reason why ChatGPT has become so popular is because it provides entertainment. So it is not a great leap forward in AI or a path to AGI, but instead a incredibly convoluted way of keeping reasonable intelligent people occupied and amused. You enter a prompt, and it returns a result - what a fun game!

Maybe that is it's primary contribution to society.

>>somewh+Cj4
Personally for me I've found that since Google search has been wrecked by SEO, or pivoted to targetting zoomers and gen alpha, it just doesn't work the same for me in my 40s. It used to be fantastic, but several times a day my search queries end in frustration like they did in the pre-Webcrawler search era.

Increasingly now I use ChatGPT and sometimes Kagi. And they just work like I expect. I can think of one time that ChatGPT has failed me, which was when I was trying to remember the terms OLTP/OLAP in database architecture. But for a long time now it's been a very effective tool in my toolbox, while Google increasingly wears out.