I’ve spent way too much time (and money) on the OpenAI API and spoken to enough non-technical people to realize now that ChatGPT has in some ways really mislead people about the technology. That is, while it’s impressive it can answer cold questions at all, the groundbreaking results are reasoning and transforming texts “in context”, which you don’t have control over easily with ChatGPT. It also seems likely this will never be fully accessible to the non-technical since I suspect any commercial applications will need to keep costs down and so minimize actually quite expensive API calls (executing a complicated gpt-4 summarization prompt across large text corpora for example). If you have the “data”, meaning of course text, and cost isn’t a concern, the results are astonishing and “lies” almost never a concern.