People, one geek noted many years ago that software will eat the world. Of course, I have also added that software will also save and advance the world. As that redesign happens, new vistas in markets will emerge. In our contemporary time, no software system posits that construct than the chatbot named ChatGPT.
How do you know? From Shopfiy to SnapChat, Microsoft to Instacart, etc, ChatGPT is emerging as an operating system for the emerging age of consumer AI. Bankers in Bank of America have noted that the “adoption rate of this technology so far is unprecedented,” putting us on the verge of another “iPhone moment,” and predicted the economic impact would be $15.7 trillion by 2030.
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“More apps get ChatGPT features. Instacart and Shopify are integrating ChatGPT with their own software and providing business customers access to OpenAI’s systems. With Instacart, users will be able to message ChatGPT to carry out recipes later this year while those on the Shopify app will get shopping recommendations tailored to their tastes.” Fortune
Some perspectives on ChatGPT:
—Bank of America said the “adoption rate of this technology so far is unprecedented,” putting us on the verge of another “iPhone moment,” and predicted the economic impact would be $15.7 trillion by 2030.
—Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he would create a new “based” A.I. to counter what he says is increasingly “woke” A.I., leading Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, to conjure up “the idea of a fragmented A.I. universe, like we have a fragmented social media or network news universe. I think that’s bad for all of us.”
–Closer to home, the CEO of media company Axel Springer, Mathias Döpfner, said he foresees disruption to media as big as the disruption that the internet caused for newspapers, and provided this mind-spinning quote: “Artificial intelligence has the potential to make independent journalism better than it ever was—or simply replace it.”
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This is interesting. Helping one make purchases on Amazon or Shopify is HUGE. Thanks for this post.