Well they made it worse. It was much more interesting when it would actually tell you how it thinks the world will end, or what kind of real estate it thinks will increase in value with climate change, or who the best people to assassinate are if you want to make sugary breakfast cereal illegal.

Now I just use it to remember names for things, like “what’s that thing called in a machine learning model that allows the computer to tell the difference between a useful result and noise?”

I know some people use it for coding still but I stopped with that, it was only useful for boilerplate web stuff and the things you learn in python 101. Plus it would do a lot wrong, like using for loops in R for anything.

It just didn’t live up to the hype.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

ChatGPT took the world by storm when it was released last November, but it looks like it’s losing momentum.

“One theory about why ChatGPT’s web traffic dropped over the summer is that school was out, which would help explain why the traffic trend stabilized in August as schoolchildren in the US were back in class in greater numbers toward the end of the month,” David F. Carr, a senior insights manager at Similarweb, wrote in the report.

Before Meta’s Threads assumed the title in July, ChatGPT was the fastest-growing app ever when it reached 100 million users in two months.

Some of that hype was prompted by students, leading to professors finding ways to combat ChatGPT plagiarism, and one Princeton student launching GPTZero to detect if an essay was written by AI.

But it’s also being used in the workplace, with employees using ChatGPT to write code, do research, and improve time management.

In July, users of OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4, started complaining that the chatbot’s performance had declined.

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