If you have been on Twitter in the last few days, you likely noticed a deluge of screenshots from a service called ChatGPT. From the OpenAI group, ChatGPT is a conversational tool that allows you to provide the system with prompts that it responds to in written format.
(You can make a free OpenAI account and give the service a shake yourself. Just don’t identify as a journalist during the onboarding process — you’ll get jammed up. Self-describe in a different manner and you can get right in.)
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TechCrunch has been busy covering OpenAI lately, with our toptechtrends.com/2022/12/02/openais-chatgpt-shows-why-implementation-is-key-with-generative-ai/”>own Darrell Etherington writing this morning about ChatGPT and how it is “quickly becoming apparent that how a user interfaces with generative models and systems is at least as important as the underlying training and inference technology.” We also toptechtrends.com/2022/12/01/while-anticipation-builds-for-gpt-4-openai-quietly-releases-gpt-3-5/”>have eyes on new generations of the well-known, and well-liked, GPT-3 AI writing tool.
That there is excitement among founders and venture investors in generative AI services like what OpenAI is building is well-known. Hell, it’s been a minute toptechtrends.com/2021/10/14/writing-helper-copy-ai-closes-on-its-second-funding-round-this-year/”>since Copy.AI showed that leveraging AI writing tools could build eight-figure ARR startups. Others are chasing similar magic, and the technology continues to improve. Hence all the screenshots.
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Let’s have some fun
First, a reminder that using computers to generate text is not new, and this is not the first time that I have stared down the barrel of a new tech tool that could, in theory, be coming for my job. Back in 2014, toptechtrends.com/2014/07/01/bring-on-the-blogging-robots/”>responding to news that the AP was planning on using some automated tech to report on corporate earnings, I wrote the following:
toptechtrends.com/2022/12/02/chatgpt-isnt-putting-me-out-of-a-job-yet-but-its-very-good-fun/”>ChatGPT isn’t putting me out of a job yet, but it’s very good fun by toptechtrends.com/author/alex-wilhelm/”>Alex Wilhelm originally published on toptechtrends.com/”>TechCrunch
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