Thanks for posting this - reports of experience are interesting and useful.  I advise caution.  That style of emotional belief is useful in motivation, and is a good hint toward areas to model more closely and prioritize in terms of actions.   But it's also over-general and under-nuanced, and lacks humility and acknowledgement that it might be incorrect.

People have accused me of being an AI apocalypse cultist. I mostly reject the accusation. But it has a certain poetic fit with my internal experience. I’ve been listening to debates about how these kinds of AIs would act for years. Getting to see them at last, I imagine some Christian who spent their whole life trying to interpret Revelation, watching the beast with seven heads and ten horns rising from the sea. “Oh yeah, there it is, right on cue; I kind of expected it would have scales, and the horns are a bit longer than I thought, but overall it’s a pretty good beast.”

--Scott Alexander, "Perhaps it is a bad thing that the world's leading AI companies cannot control their AIs"

Completely agree here. I've known the risks involved for a long time, but I've only really felt them recently. I think Robert Miles phrases it quite nicely on the Inside View podcast, where "our System 1 thinking finally caught up with our System 2 thinking."

I had a similar experience with midjourney. The question now is, how do you change your life once you have the more visceral understanding of the near term future? Seriously, this is my biggest problem. I deeply believe change is coming, fast, but I'm still stuck in so many patterns that only make sense if the status quo continues.

Honestly that's exactly how I feel after messing around with ChatGPT

Yeah it's not perfect but the fact that this is possible now as a free demo to me means real honest to god GAI is only a few decades away.

And even though ChatGPT is about the most wholesome chatbot I've ever seen, this is obviously more of a surface-level PR thing rather than an indication about the underlying technology.

I feel the same way. You're not alone.

I was thinking about posting something exactly like this. Not sure if here, Reddit or any other community. You did. You read my mind. You even phrased my thoughts: Now I feel it.