Me: I would like to generate a response in the style of "Bud" on the EEVBlog, can you do that?
ChatGPT: I'd be happy to give a response in the style of Bud on the EEVBlog! What would you like me to say?
Much fun to be had here on the forum with this! 
Reminds me of a prolific user on Usenet electronics (and other) groups called Rod Speed.
He was so well known for writing bot-like replies that someone actually wrote a Rod Speed simulator, and it was pretty hard to tell the diffence!
It will be interesting to see how that new child board (or sub-forum), succeeds, in practice.
If it's a fad and people lose interest in talking about it then no harm at all. We've mearged "dead" sections before.
I remember you saying about the notorious Rod Speed, in a past thread. That sounds very funny.
In the 1980's (as someone else mentioned), there was lots of hype about artificial intelligence. But in practice, not a lot, happened. Especially not as regards any products or software, that consumers could obtain or buy.
But this new, upcoming generation of AI stuff, with the ChatGPT, hitting the headlines, and popularity charts. Does seem to be a very significant, new era, in computing and probably world changing event.
In my opinion, it can read random text so well, and produce rather sensible looking results and responses. That it can be very successful. Especially if later and later versions/generations of it, keep on improving in leaps and bounds.
It does make mistakes (too often), and has very limited real (general intelligence), at the moment.
But as time goes on, and these things get developed. Who knows, where it may end up?
E.g. The original 'mobile phones', that were the size of shoe boxes, cost a small (or large) fortune, and may have needed extra big boxes full of electronics to allow them to work, and power them. But, they were a genuine start of a new revolution, in mobile (phone) communications.
I suspect in coming decades (I very much hope, sooner, rather than later), we will be able to get human sized, robots, with essentially human like intelligence, who can help out and do chores and things, around peoples homes.
But on the other hand, if they can eventually, also tackle virtually any (previously paid jobs, done by humans). That could cause major upheavals in the job market, and real big complications. As to how wealth is earnt and distributed.
There were times, long ago, when people thought that the development of machines which could churn out, thousands of properly made items, each hour. Such as books (printing), small parts, and later bigger things. Would cause terrible problems on the job market, as those things use to be made by humans. But they could only produce a few items per hour, as opposed to the machines massively increased throughput.
But in practice, machines just made everyone much, much richer. Because so many items became very plentiful and cheap.
So, a long time ago, people kept their jobs. Just that they would tend a new fangled machine and make thousands of things, each hour. Instead of manually making just a few items, by hand, each hour. So, everyone was happy (especially the millionaire machine factory owners!).
So, who knows? Maybe everything will turn out ok, in the end?
I suspect it is trickiest, for younger people, about to go to university. What is the best way of handling possible future changes, as regards AI. Is there any point in going for things like programming, which may be partially taken over by automatic program generating software/AI.
There are disagreements, as to if the other skills and work, involved in real life programming work, especially within electronics embedded stuff. Will keep such people in employment.
I think, there is a huge amount of, extra software which could be written, if cheaper options were available, to get programming work done. So, to an extent, the market could well, still cry out for experienced programming people, such as software engineers.
I think electronic engineering, is too fiddly in some aspects, to be rapidly taken over by ChatGPT. E.g. Who sits by a non-working, new prototype and debugs and troubleshoots it, when it doesn't work as expected.
Also some areas, are too ill defined, such as RF.
But straight forward web development work, could in theory, be partially replaced by automatic programming agents, where a normal (non-web development) worker, specifies what the business wants, then ChatGPT etc, goes ahead and implements it.
But it would still need testing and maintenance, and some aspects are best done by experienced web people, who know what they are doing. So it's not clear, what is going to happen, in the future.
But very complicated web development, would still probably need real web developers. E.g. Banking websites.
Maybe it will end up like wordprocessors. Where something like 2 to 5 typists, could be replaced, by one wordprocessing operator. Or even the manager, types the thing themselves, using a PC, and laser prints it. But there are still many other office staff, just their precise functions are different, these days.
E.g. Instead of typewriting, or operating a wordprocessor, they might answer many emails, answer the phone, make tea/coffee, etc etc.
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