I'm certain this is why people like Musk and many other influential heads in the space recommend things so slow down.
As I already stated here, the AI is not to blame, it is the people; the people are in full control of this.
The timing is off. Way off. AI should have come before Covid.
People like Musk and Wozniak are writing for it to slow down (be paused) entirely so they can catch up with their own proprietary models.
They know full well that the likes of ChatGPT being ahead means it will grow exponentially beyond second place as more people use it and level it up faster.
If the billionaires want in on it, the only way they can get ahead is by forcing their competitors to stop through legislation, giving them time to work on the tech behind the scenes
At the end of the day, they're just people trying to catch up, like the rest of us, in a sense, and I'm sure we all have our reasons, while others decide what those reasons are for us from a distance. Ain't life a beautiful thing.
What people are doing wrong is jumping onboard, shifting their focus, while the future they're setting up for themselves becomes dependent on a tool that may or may not prove it itself, could change in an instant, vanish completely, and so on.
"Look at my car! Life's so easy!" said nobody, while stuck in traffic, to sit in line at a pump that may or may not have fuel that is far too expensive.
My searching has become more efficient and enjoyable since Edge released Bing Chat. I'm not visiting sites. They don't get money. Can't stay afloat. Search loses its mind, in a sense. Follow that rope all the way down the line and you'll find someone hanging.
It's a very delicate balancing act seemingly on the surface tipping way too far to one side. People do need time to adjust. Some can only see what's directly in front of them and still be blind to what's ahead.
I wonder if it is the Great Filter playing out
Perhaps. Explosive colonization? Certainly nowhere close, in our physical form. Our intelligence on the other hand, we can get that moving at the speed of light in all directions at once, if you think about it.