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papercup posted...

I keep hearing about how amazing this ChatGPT thing is and how its going to take all the writing jobs, but I dont even know what it is. Is it really that much more impressive and useful than chatbots that have existed for the past quarter century?

I can give you a good example of how it is basically making Stack Overflow irrelevant.
ChatGPT has been trained with a very large amount of programming problems, which means that you can ask it problems in a similar way to how one would ask Google how a specific API works. Almost all of the time "how do I do x in y" will redirect you to Stack Overflow which is basically reddit for programmers (It's not, but this is a very high level explanation).
Most questions on Stack Overflow have some power tripping mod and very low quality replies. ChatGPT will just give you the answer to the question without any bullshit if the question is simple enough.

Here's one I ran the other day because I wanted to know how to effectively split a string on a delimiter in C++:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/1/AAZknmAAEI07.jpg
I have around 10 years of experience in C++ and I would have never thought this up by myself (I did not even know std::accumulate existed).

Here is the Stack Overflow response:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9277906/stdvector-to-string-with-custom-delimiter

You see that the second example uses std::accumulate but the other responses are not as clean IMO. The highest voted option I would not even use because it has issues (read the comment about the trailing delimiter). The answer is not actually the correct answer here at all. I actually could not get this to compile and std::ostream_iterator is not even something that people use anymore as far as I can tell because there are more efficient ways to iterate in newer versions of C++.