Three reasons you should be paying closer attention to ChatGPT

I've been getting inundated with ChatGPT content over the last week, and it certainly feels like one of those moments in tech that's going to have ripple effects in the coming months and years ahead. If that hasn't been your experience, let's get you up to speed with what it is and what it's going to mean.

What is Chat GPT?

ChatGPT is based on a AI model that allows people to interact with it in a conversational way. Simply put, you can ask it questions and it provides you well-reasoned responses that you have never seen anything close to before, you can ask follow up questions and it will stay in context and take further instruction. Check it out here. ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue (openai.com)

Even if you aren't in technology here are 3 reasons you should be looking at it -

1. It's going to change the way software is designed. Technology is the base on which most processes and fucntions are built but barely any of it has been designed 'AI first' which means that we have to spend an inordinate amount of time designing it both technically and in the user interface to make it do the things that we want it to do (and we still don't nail it most of the time). This way of interacting with software is going to significantly cutdown the amount of that work required and bring better software to market at a much faster pace.
2. It's going to speed things up. The fact that fast, clear answers are now much more obtainable (it even makes google seem slow and antiquated) is going to be game changing for a number of functions. Think customer support and service, advice giving functions like legal and assurance, as well as content and copywriting. It will either disintermediate them entirely or change the value they provide. Bots might also start to yield the ROI that has been promised for all those enterprises which were previously subscale and couldn't invest the amount of money required to make them good.
3. It's going impact big business. By big business I mean FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) but for this post I'll focus in on Apple and Google. I'm sure the Siri team will be watching this one and wondering how they got lapped with something so much better and I think it's because this is the sort of thing that would never be produced inside of a business that large this quick. No doubt google will also be worried as it will start to impact search (revenue) and that will have the biggest ripple effect of all both on google and the businesses shelling out every month for their SEO tax.

I'm excited to see what happens next, the first real use cases that come to life and the amount of people shift their interest from Web3 or Crypto to ChatGPT as we see this space explode.

If you want to see the difference that it would make for you then just make it one of your 50 open tabs tomorrow and put some of your day-to-day questions through it and see how it goes. ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue (openai.com)