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Could you directly address the use-cases that the person you replied to brought up, because they seem pretty important to this discussion to get swept aside?
Forecasting wildfire spread, feeding people better... finding novel drugs, curing illnesses, cheap accurate translation, these all "pale in comparison" to the costs? Even though those uses have all existed for years before ChatGPT?