Recently I wanted to understand the lyrics for 青花瓷, but I couldn’t find good translations through Google since the writing is fairly dense and symbolic. For me it reads like a Tang poem or something. Google Translate was nearly meaningless.
So I turned to ChatGPT (using GPT-4) and boy did it deliver! I was giddy when I saw the first reply to my simple prompt:
Wow! It’s got everything I need.
I really want to use ChatGPT more. One of the downsides of being in my late 30s is that I’m so *comfortable* with my existing tech habits that it takes more consistent reminding and constant pushing to build a new one.
But this leap feels to me like it’s bigger than when internet search first became fairly good. I’m thinking back to like, the improvement that was Altavista, let alone Google