IMHO what is good about ChatGPT (or better put, the technology behind it) is that it can take in a lot of data and extract useful excerpts from it.
ChatGPT is just a "better Google". People are so excited about it because classic search engines, for some reason I can't understand, not only stayed in stone age but actually regressed. For example, the Google Search (the website / text search, not talking about images, maps etc.) was in its peak technical performance somewhere in 2003. Since then, it was purposely made worse and worse, with the aim to return
maximum number of search results, instead of high quality results. The starting point in late 1990's was OK-ish: search engines returned web pages which contained the words in the prompt. Mediocre, but very simple, and you
usually found something about the actual subject you wanted to know within 50-100 first results.
In early years of 2000's, Google made some algorithmic improvements invisible to end users which improved results and brought relevant information to the first 10 hits, but then downhill started soon, and still in 2020, if you need any
specific information, it's simply impossible to find using Google.
For two full decades as of now, Google's primary use is to allow people to type "face bok", get 1000000000000000000 results and find facebook.com as the first result. For any more specific research, you can't find anything.
Then came ChatGPT so that you can ask a specific question, and get random and mixed quality answers, it's like Google in 1999 just formatted in more verbose bullshit boilerplate structure, plus of course the fact that you have to
separately ask for the references, and if lucky, get something. It's also pretty good at finding what you actually wanted to know, even if your keywords are not exact. Similar to what Google researched on their algorithms in very early years of 2000's.
But it allows finding information from the Internets again, like it was 1999 all over again. And the excitement is the same. Just like people were overexcited in 1999 and Google became a business giant thanks to its good start with search engines, we are now seeing the same hype about "AI". The end result will be the same all over again: modest improvement, stall of development, regression, and disappointment.
For many years already, AI has been said to "improve dramatically" "within just a few years" and "take all the jobs". Yet, nothing has happened: ChatGPT nor its competitors have not improved at all (some feel they have already regressed). People like rstofer play this "oh
but within next two years it will happen!" game for a few more years, and then not only forget about the whole thing, also forget about what they said.
And then comes the next hype, and the cycle repeats.