My overall take on chatGPT is akin to Alexa. When Alexa came out almost a decade ago, voice assistants were heralded as a game changer in the industry. Everyone copied and got their own version of smart voice assistants with some of them even having conversational abilities. Today, I dont know anyone who does any serious kind of work with voice assistants, and their usefulness has basically been limited to play me a song, set timer for x minutes or what is the score/weather/time kind of basic interactions. Such computing revolutions take decades to happen, and I do believe that our grandkids might finally be the voice generation that we once believed Alexa/Google/Siri would make us within 5 years.
So, I think the same of chatGPT. In a few years everyone will be like oh yeah, chatGPT is great but not many will be articulate what is it great at except being a better search engine (no wonder Google is scared). That doesnt mean chatGPT won’t thrive, but like Alexa it will slowly disappear into background and our grandkids might never even know it existed. But to claim that chatGPT is going to solve world problems, or is going to take away all jobs or crush companies and economies is frankly so far fetched and ridiculous. Relax, Skynet is not happening just yet - and definitly not in our timelines.