ChatGPT is not Google
It worries me that ChatGPT is being used for a purpose it was not designed for: to serve as a search engine on steroids.
After the uncritical enthusiasm around the “metaverse”, I am pleased to see public opinion embrace “artificial intelligence”, a truly transformative technology. It is good that people are talking about the risks and benefits of tools like ChatGPT, a program that passed 100 million users two months after its launch.
Used well, ChatGPT can already help professionals and individuals with more or less basic tasks. But it worries me that it is being used more for a purpose it was not designed for: to serve as a search engine on steroids.
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AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 10 February 2023.