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While ChatGPT is a real technological breakthrough because I think we, for the first time ever, crossed a line that made having conversations with AI Chatbots useful, it also was inevitable. Year by year we crawled forwards, improving bit by bit. I think we just underestimated the tipping point, at least I would have never thought something of the level of ChatGPT to be possible. It will only improve from here, competition will increase and AI NLP will become that much more common.

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i'm afraid it will get very political very quickly. Enjoy the last moments in which these things are not regulated and not much censorship or political bias is indoctrinated from above.

This was exactly my thought. Right now we are in the early stages of awesomeness. Similar to the early days of Google, with Google News and Images and without all the abuse and spammers.

Once the politicians see it as a threat because of its perceived bias, or the content creators see that their copyright is infringed, or the scammers see that it can be used to scam people, or the spammers overwhelm the API, or or or.... Then the fun is going to be over.

But maybe not. Maybe it'll be fine. One can only hope.

Politics seem to be incapable of stopping technological progress... at most it slows it down a little, in some parts of the world, while other parts race ahead.

As more parts of the world improve technologically, economically, and in terms of education, technological progress becomes even harder to stop.

Mix in the virtually limitless promise of riches and power that strong AI brings, there's just no way any government anywhere will be capable of preventing strong AI research from racing on. In fact, every government will see it to be in their own interest to get there first. Same with every billionaire.

There's just no stopping the race to develop a wish-granting machine.

Politics doesn't want to stop technological progress, it wants to make sure it controls it and not you. And it largely does, and where it doesn't, it still makes your life miserable.

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