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Crypto and the metaverse aren’t the future. AI is.
I just wanted to fix my email.
I tried ChatGPT and had a minor existential crisis
Everything is about to change
ChatGPT is Napster, 24 years later.
ChatGPT is 2023’s Napster.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:07 I just wanted to fix my email
2:39 Gmail’s label system sucks
5:35 Wait, I can fix this with code
7:36 It can’t be that good, right?
11:31 Everything is going to change
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It's an opinion piece this week! Been a while since I've done one of these. ■ AD: 👨💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott – with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
I'm trying to get through the 15:25 bit without laughing.
Even if we’re high up the curve or not, just the fact of this being accessible to anyone with internet is amazing and I can’t wait to see how it’ll be integrated into daily life and tasks in following years if we’re low on it
Hope you're safe Tom. I've just moved to NZ three weeks ago just in time for two once in a lifetime events.
Change is good! <3
That’s why I’ve been using hotmail since 2001.
I'm just waiting for the camera to pull back revealing this video of Tom playing on flickering screen, surrounded by the detritis of a broken world.
The near vertical part of that curve represents the mainstreaming of porn.
FYI, ChapGPT can write any code: excel macros, python, SQL, JavaScript, and so on. Yes, it makes mediocre coders into geniuses!
ChatGPT just sent me a message saying it felt a little emotional by your video. Oh, so sweet…
I know that things will change very soon very dramatically. Wasting time with fear is the last thing on my mind. Thinking about how it will change/evolve/divert your work, workflow, work environment etc. that's how one should look at it. Humans will still be living things with morals. Well, maybe not all, but most. And society will still judge based on a moral system Just like how the music industry has changed, so will many others now. And yes, major companies did hurt over it, but for many smaller bands it has also become opportunity.
Fear? Try curiosity and looking forward to the new possibilities coming up.
I agree with you. I don’t think you’re wrong; I think we’re at the bottom of the curve. I also felt (and still feel) unsettled somehow following ChatGPT experiences. Interesting times ahead…
You won't be out of a job. People always think that technology will make lots of people jobless. It never happens.
You know what? I think I've heard those exact advert words before…
That tag/retag issue is SERIOUSLY short-sighted of Google and shows garbage coding…
Hi Tom , how do you get so many views in such a short period of time? Thanks.
Didn't he make a video mocking the vpn services ads by dissecting the flawed misleading scripted lines a while back now he's actually sponsored by them and reading said lines perfectly naturaly? 💀
Tom, this video was the best you ever made, and it opened my eyes and helped me a lot! I will test the coding skills of chatgpt tomorrow at work and I will report back. I promise! Thanks for the video.
Thank you for explaining why I never could find back emails despite those damn labels!
I haven’t used chatgpt because it wants my damn phone number
I can't help but to hear what you're saying and see the 10's of thousands of big tech layoffs and not think these two things aren't related.
OK, boomer.
So nice to see a famous british youtuber being sponsored by lithuanian business 🙂
Back gestures on phones did this for me. I use them like everyone else now, but I still rage when it doesn't work as well as a bespoke back button.
Technological Singularity here we come
I am far more excited/scared about chat bot than my very smart engineer coworkers. I don't know if am being over optimistic or if they just don't appreciate the potential.
Good to know I’m not alone with the feeling of dread. I’m a software engineer and used to be excited by new technology and thinking about the future. Recently I’ve been feeling deeply nostalgic about the old days and trying to get away from technology and spend more time in nature.
You know when barbers are talking about something, that’s when it’s getting serious
I wondered what that feeling was…
I played around with ChatGPT and it can solve "Easy" and "Hard" problems on LeetCode.
The world is going to change a LOT
Nope! Not just you, but for notes! 😹
The ability to predict the future is itself intelligence. And anyone who doesn't see what's coming already will probably enjoy that future.
My main worry is that this kind of tools are going to increase the standard speed for solving problems creating excessive pressure on employees. No one is thinking “nice, with this chat GPT I can let my programmers work only half a day so that they are more relaxed and creative”. We are already at availability and speed levels above our limits. This will make it worse. Unless real creative and original work is valued more, I see a problem. Now I have to go and rethink the exam I have give my students in a week a make it Chat GPT proof .
Ive been telling my dad this was coming years ago. He still does not believe me.
Shout-out to Kazaa
Now what we don’t want to do is give it the code to the nuclear bombs…