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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
I can only speak for me, but I derive no entertainment from "chatting" with a computer program. I have only used it in ways that are useful to me. And I found it very good at troubleshooting software config issues as well as generating customized boilerplate code and even for generating fake data to insert into databases for testing. I have also found it quite good at extracting data from unstructured information like logs. Something that before, would have required maybe 20 minutes of fiddling with regex and writing a script for.