Chapter 8

Using ChatGPT in Daily Life

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Comparing virtual assistants to ChatGPT

Bullet Understanding why keywords are dying

Bullet Guarding against misinformation

Bullet Grasping what ChatGPT is missing

This chapter introduces you to some of the changes that will ripple through daily life as a result of the ubiquitous adoption of ChatGPT and other generative AI models. At least some of these changes will eventually be noticeable even to people who don't use ChatGPT, don’t realize that they do, or have never heard of it.

These are the early days of ChatGPT’s appearance on the scene, which means more changes are on the way. This chapter outlines a few of the more foreseeable and likely changes.

Dying Keywords

Search engines introduced keywords to our everyday life. Employees, researchers, and consumers alike learned that if they wanted to find anything in the broad expanse of the internet, they had to figure out which words the search engine could best match to content they wanted it to retrieve.

People adapted their lives to accommodate keywords in their personal sphere of existence as ...

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