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I feel as though a few parts of the original post didn't age the greatest in the last couple of months, so here's an update to it.
Now running GPT-4, "sadly" harder to make it say the ridiculous stuff that my inner 12-year-old craves. It is also fun to watch it hysterically fail when asked to make anything in ASCII. While I do see it replacing a lot of customer support jobs, especially those involving email or specialized chatrooms, I'm not as convinced it is replacing as many jobs as originally thought. Programmer jobs may still be at serious risk, especially as AI-written code improves exponentially. I'
I'm honestly surprised I didn't mention this as it was one of the main things that caused me to write the original post in the first place. It was I guess "technically" the first chatbot to use GPT-4, and I would say it is still the best one currently on the market. Initially rolled on February 7th, it was memed at launch. Not only did it make errors, it made headlines when it seemingly tried to convince people it wanted to be human, along with flirting with people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bing+AI&showconv=1&FORM=hpcodx
It's interesting to see how fast my original post aged on this front. On the same day, I posted it Google mere hours later had the now infamous live stream in Paris announcing Bard's demo, which along with not being impressive compared to any of the competitors (OpenAI and Bing) made errors that should have been accounted for, such as with the James Webb Space Telescope. In the fallout of this Alphabet's stock fell 9% (oh no, anyway) and the livestream was private.
Since this, Google has been considerably quieter about it, there is a closed beta currently similar to what Microsoft did, and it seems like it only recently got the ability to write code. Even though knowing Google paint thinner will seemingly have more of a personality, it seems as though it's still slowly becoming a real challenger. If I had to guess, based on what others have said they are preparing to make the "real" announcement at Google I/O in May.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2023/2/7/23590069/bing-openai-microsoft-google-bard
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-bard-can-now-help-write-software-code-2023-04-21/
What does the future bring? Hell if I know.
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