AI ChatGPT

We have been hearing about the interesting aspects and concepts of artificial intelligence. We asked our almost twenty something year old grandson about it around Christmas. He didn’t think much about it. I thought it would have huge ramifications for both college students and professors alike. I can’t imagine that it won’t touch everyone somehow. Now there are so many versions of it it’s hard to keep up with them all. Last week we got an invitation to join Google’s program called Bard. But there is a wait list and we are waiting for the next email to let us know when it will be available. So I decided to download the Chat GPT app. It cost twenty dollars a month. I figured we could test it to see what it’s all about and then cancel after a month. Well, that was a big waste of time. We haven’t been able to get past the “busy servers” that are so occupied they have no time for us. We tried one day, then the next day. It didn’t matter what time. So I searched for support and asked what we could do. Within minutes we received a canned email describing all of the options - which were all useless. And at the end in fine print you cannot get a refund for this lousy service. Both my husband and I like to stay ahead of things so we know what’s going on around us. We already feel like we are behind the eight ball with technology and so much more zooming past us. But this was a huge disappointment given all of the hype about it. We had heard a long time ago how this technology will disrupt the creative arts like painting. Now I think China has a name for their version called Ernie Bot. I wonder what jobs will be most impacted by this new invention? It feels like the beginning of the internet or the Model T. How life will change - again. But it would be nice to see how it works - especially when you pay for it.