Commentary
The stock market was in the doldrums when Nvidia came along with ChatGPT and revived the techno-optimism of year’s past. A new innovation! Intelligence that is better than humans! People will be losing jobs to machines! The singularity is on the way! Resistance is futile so might as well buy the stock.
That was seven months ago and it’s been quite the ride. And we’ve all tried it out. Experts began to show its mistakes and they were huge. Gradually we began to realize something odd. For all the hype and for all its impressive ability to assemble English sentences—something hardly anyone under the age of 30 can do—it isn’t really intelligent in the way we think of that term….