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The problem with calling it hype is the broad stroke that's painted about all discussions of its abilities, simply by using that word when it's not all hype. A key part of the definition of hype is the exaggeration of importance and benefits. There are absolutely some out there out there that are exaggerating ChatGPT's abilities, but what are those exaggerations and what are actual abilities that anybody with an OpenAI account can go a verify (true or not) for themselves?

It's an exaggeration to say that GPT-4 can solve all programming problems, but it's easily verifiable that, for example, it's able to solve easy level leetcode problems, and what's impressive on top of that it's able to give an answer to those problems practically before I've finished even reading the problem. That's not hype or a claim by me that you have to take on faith, anybody can copy and paste a problem description and get an answer. It's fair to point out that it's so-so at medium problems, and downright unable to do hard problems, but, well, most humans can't solve hard level problems.

So what's hype, and what's not? It seems to think/reason/understand better than a human child. It's better than some humans with its command of the English language. It has broad knowledge of many subjects beyond what most individual humans know about. It sometimes has poor recall of that knowledge, and some of it is wrong, but it accepts corrections (even if it's unable to commit those corrections back to long-term memory) with far more grace than most humans.