ChatGPT , the know-it-all technology that everyone is talking about right now, is home to a revolution similar to the one that the iPhone once brought to the world wide web. OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot marks a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence (and is just the beginning of an absolutely colossal transformation that will find its way into each and every twist and turn of our lives).
If ChatGPT is indeed to artificial intelligence what the iPhone once was to the internet, we must remember how rudimentary Apple's first smartphone was compared to the current iPhone 14 (which it only remotely resembles in design).
The first iPhone (almost a technological relic) was also a gadget that only a lucky norway number data few (with deep pockets) got their hands on. Sixteen years after the iPhone was released, smartphones have become absolutely ubiquitous and almost indispensable for everyday activities. Don't we feel "one-handed" without the iPhone (or any smartphone) firmly attached to our hand?
Given the rapid evolution of the first iPhone in recent years, we should prepare ourselves for something similar (and probably much more subversive) in the case of ChatGPT. And much of what this technology cannot do today (and which would seem to us almost like something out of a science fiction movie) will be able to do without much effort in just three or five years.
Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, ChatGPT (and its many clones) will be armed with real-time knowledge and able to mimic our writing style so astonishingly accurately that their texts and ours will be virtually indistinguishable from one another.
ChatGPT is carrying a real revolution within its womb, and from the womb of that revolution many losers will unfortunately emerge. Among the long list of losers of ChatGPT are undoubtedly journalists, who could mutate into mere content moderators (if there is still room for them in the future), predicts Nils Jacobsen in an article for Meedia . Devalued for decades by the Internet, the profession of journalist is definitely not what it once was. And today few aspiring journalists dream of emulating Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.