Phill Jones writes: “ChatGPT has changed the way we think about generative artificial intelligence, both as a sector and as a society. It took the progress that computer scientists have been making for decades and made it directly visible to the public. In a post I wrote about two years ago, I wondered when the crash in the hype would come. While I’m still not sure when all this AI excitement will turn in on itself, I find myself wondering whether we know any more about what this technology will eventually do for us.”