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Pain rolled off him like rain from a slate roof.

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

OpenAI didn’t expect ChatGPT to amount to much more than a passing curiosity among AI obsessives on Twitter: In a company pool wagering how many people might use ChatGPT during its first week, the highest guess was 100,000 users. (The tool hit 1 million within the first five days.) The product was intended to be the software equivalent of a concept car. Instead, it became one of the most popular applications in the history of the internet.

One Year In, ChatGPT’s Legacy Is Clear

Galaxy Brain

That means reckoning with what’s called ambiguous loss: any loss that’s unclear and lacks a resolution. It can be physical, such as a missing person or the loss of a limb or organ, or psychological, such as a family member with dementia or a serious addiction.

Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful

elemental.medium.com

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