When I was a kid, I had a terrible nightmare. Strangely, out of all my childhood dreams I still remember this one incredibly vividly. I dreamt I was abducted by aliens! Yes, as crazy as that sounds, I was allowed up late one evening and ended up watching a supposed alien abduction on TV before the good night kiwi turned the lights out. Perhaps it explains a lot you might say? I am not sure what I believe in, in all honesty, but the existence of extra terrestrials is not completely out of the realms of possibility in my mind. I don’t really give it a lot of thought and tend to sleep well as a result. But in my mind, chat GPT is up there with aliens landing. A friend of mine cheekily sent me an excerpt asking Chat GPT to describe Ben Stevens and Flipview®. What came back was a lot of fluff but not much else. I don’t have a degree in computer science! Aparently, I am a “visionary entrepreneur” with an “unwavering commitment to innovation”. I had visions of sharing chat GPT’s summary over a coffee with my wife one morning. But I think she may have laughed so hard that there would have been coffee everywhere.
While some of the facts might have been just a tiny little bit of the mark, its syntax and structure, the way the whole thing was strung together did impress me. What if chat GPT’s price performance ratio was to double every couple of years?
In 2015, Brian Krzanich, the CEO of Intel, opened an evening to celebrate 50 years since Gordon Moore articulated his “law”, with an analogy of a VW Beetle. Were a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle to undergo the same transformation as a microchip (at 44 years of age) it would travel at 300,000 miles per hour, achieve 2 million miles per gallon and cost four cents.The top speed of a factory 1971 VW Super Bug? Apparently 84mph.My ten cents on the whole chat GPT thing?Aliens have landed and we are all about to be abducted.
