"ChatGPT will not replace the work of a specialist": an interview with Web 3.0 expert Stas Ustenko

Stas Ustenko is a media manager, expert in product development, tokenomics and Web 3.0. It monitors in real time how the Internet and the life of users in it is changing. We discussed with Stas today's trends, the future of the Web and the prospects for the development of artificial intelligence.

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT now. How do you assess the situation? Do we really have a revolutionary change in the market?

ChatGPT is not the only system that can generate content on demand. Baidu will soon integrate its own Ernie chatbot. Google's Bard announcement looks powerful. And then there is ChatSonic and Jasper Chat. Or, for example, the You.com search engine. While competitors are rolling out beta releases, these guys have already set up a full integration of the universal narrator into their product. In general, the market is already hot, and then passions will only heat up.

But the main problem of machines now is not in content creation, but in data verification. If we are talking about a flyer, then ChatGPT is a great assistant for a copywriter. He will only need to slightly correct the final text. But if you ask a serious financial question or ask about your impressions about a certain product, you get a dubious one. text where half of the information will be true, and the other part will be a compilation from different sources with obviously false conclusions. Therefore, products that can check information are now coming to the fore - say, Wolfram Alpha.

So ChatGPT is inaccurate?

The developers do not hide the fact that we are only part of a long journey and the information provided by the system needs to be carefully checked. In addition, there is another pitfall: neural networks are trained on a large amount of old information, and if you need to give an answer in the moment - for example, about an event that happened five hours ago - ChatGPT will honestly say that its model does not have such data. The main conclusion is this: this is an excellent tool for helping, but it will not replace the work of a specialist. ChatGPT will never be able to compete with regular journalism. She definitely cannot study an electric shaver and write a review about the advantages and disadvantages of the product. But it has already become a chic help for authors and copywriters. So the general situation is like in the film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”: although they said that there would be one continuous television, the theater has not gone anywhere yet.

Let's look into the future. How do you see the scheme of the author's work on the site in a few years?

The collection of routine data such as filling in various information databases will be automated. A number of topics will be completely at the mercy of AI. We see this already now in the example of share reports. For many topics, the machine will first generate text-fish, and the work of the author will smoothly migrate towards the editorial. In my opinion, this is the usual progress, nothing special.

— After the cryptocurrency boom came the cryptocurrency winter. Although until recently they predicted the tokenization of literally everything. Maybe this will happen with ChatGPT? Now she has risen on a fashionable wave, but will soon go into the shadows.

Nevertheless, the central banks of many countries are now developing digital currencies. This is a direct consequence of that boom. The crypto boom that we have seen since 2020 was fueled by non-stop money printing during the pandemic. Now the regulators have taken a tough stance, and the foam has been washed away. If we look at the volume of investments in web 3.0, we see growth year by year: from 18 billion in 2019 to 52 billion last year.

- That is, Web 3.0 is more alive than all the living?

According to experts, annual investments in this sector by 2030 will amount to more than 82 billion rubles. And this despite the fact that so far no one has really understood what the metaverses are and why everyone is doing them.

— And why?

It's just a pretty wrapper for Web 3.0 and DAO mechanisms. The bottom line is the gradual evolution of Web 2.0 to Web 3.0. Web 3.0 is based on two principles - decentralization and user participation in system management. And also the widest use of AI. The second question, as I said, has already been resolved. The point is small: to connect users to real participation in the system. For this, DAO mechanisms are used.

— Tell us more about DAO and the future of such systems.

The bottom line is to create horizontal self-governing structures with the distribution of access levels and the possibility of bringing issues to discussion or voting on them. Modern DAOs are perfect for this. Now several areas of such systems are developing simultaneously: a community for creating content and donations for it, social reputation trackers, talent marketplaces, digitization models of real data.

What next, say, in 2030?

It will be even more interesting. There will be clear legislative grounds for the operation of such systems, brainstorming modules for solving the most important problems facing society, a lot of financial DAOs and, finally, their merging with corporations and designing companies according to the principles of Web 3.0. This is such a brave new world where every line written by anyone on the web will be his own. auto RU.