Chat-GPT is the Marsha, Marsha, Marsha of 2023

Do y'all remember the Brady Bunch? It's still in syndication and was one of the 70ies most popular TV shows. Marsha Brady was the middle child of three girls in a combined family of 6 (the other 3 were brothers) and was often exclaimed by everyone in the family as: "Marsh, Marsh, Marsha!". It became one of the original memes.

I was thinking about this as I read and curate through some 1800 + articles and references to Chat-GPT these past few weeks. It is definitely the hot thing of the moment and has been so for a few months now. It's like the Beatles on Ed Sullivan - for another pop culture reference. Everyone wants to start a band now.

Maybe I should up date references to a more 2000's version but I think you get the idea.

What interests me a lot is how this tool has hit the mainstream and that's the audience I really care about.

Finally something has come along that is clearly artificially intelligent and the general public is using it - or at the very least - abundantly aware of it.

This is our teachable moment people!

I know Linkedin is for the professional user who looks for contacts and information around their field(s). But what I keep feeling as professionals talk their talk is an absence of the Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. Meaning, references to a frustrating, naive or overlooked family member - not makers or governments or legal et al. The awareness from consumers finally gives a chance to ask and listen to what they feel and think.

Many are less concerned about how some marketing firm is using this thing than they are about their kids and education. Not all are against it but many are wondering what it means. The closest I can think of is the advent of the calculator and how it was "not allowed" for many years anywhere near schools. Yet accountants and other professionals - even teachers - were using it at the same time.

Times have changed, of course, and so they will with things like Chat-GPT. We can take a lesson from calculator resistance and start dealing with the beast now.

It's so obvious we are in the throws of something HUGE right now and right now is when we should massively exploit the opportunity to dialogue with Mom's, Dad's, friends, relatives and, basically, everyone on the street we meet.

This will likely turn the debate on ethics, pauses, risks and such on its ear. Don't you think it's time we start to create things that are going to be received by the masses as actually serving a purpose for them?

I do!

But I don't think the provider/purveyor is on this yet. There is still way to much of the cult/clique AI community at large that sometimes talk audience but never walks it.

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha ...

So, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha - what are you waiting for?

If I'm wrong here, please let me know with a comment. I'd like to celebrate you and bring your work to the attention of my audiences. After all, this is part of community AI literacy too.