While it gets better at coding and maths, chat itself (which most people use) doesn't feel any smarter than it did 1 year ago and it is very easy to get the answers you want from it without explicitly asking for it. It backs down less fast then it use to if I pushback but it still backs down pretty fast if you do. It is going to continue to reinforce people's beliefs back to them without understanding what it is saying.

Artificial Intimacy by Sherry Turkle is a good read on this and covers more than the ai relationship bots. She broadly discusses how machines that wield language are messing with our brains and social structures.

I'm far more concerned about this than the doomsday scenarios being proffered by Big Ai. They are (un)surprisingly silent on this front.

It’s startling how many close people around me are so heavily submitting, or should I say, abdicating, to AI. These systems are powerful (though jagged in their capabilities, for now at least), and there is such total surrender to them, even at this current level. I’m not even talking about software/tech people, but ‘normies’ with very different jobs and lives outside the SV cultural bubble. The future will only get weirder.