[thehoneybadger]

Having written and sold machine learning software for over 15 years, you are definitely over-reacting. There is about a 10 year pattern. Every 10 years AI gets drummed up as the next big thing. It is all marketing hype. It always fails.

This happened in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and now the 20s. Without fail. It is a hyped up trend.

Only be concerned when someone is presenting a real breakthrough in the science (not the commercial aspect). A real breakthrough in the science will not have any immediate economic impact.

Convolutional neural networks are absolutely not revolutionary over the prior state of the art. These are incremental gains in model accuracy at the cost of massive data structures. There is no real leap up here in the ability for a machine to reason.

ChatGPT is just snake oil. Calm down. It will come and go.