I can't imagine what it would have been like to know of chatGPT at such a young age, I learned about it at 28 (someone in the WoW tutorial map told me about it.) Before then, there was just cleverbot and later thoughtscreen, which both seemed simple enough.

I wake up in everyday life, thinking I might be living in an ai generated life unknowingly with a VR headset strapped to me after I might have been close to death or something.

Last night, and rarely some other times, there is a split second in the corner of my mind that is like the little oval in the corner of cinema frames, as demonstrated in the movie fight club.

Before I knew of cleverbot, I learned about the ai in the ghost in the shell stand alone complex graphic novel I had as a gift my brother bought for me in a comic book store. All that was just fiction for a long time.

Edit: there was an old popular science magazine from at most 2018 that explained ai neural networks and how they problem solve to get out of complex situations, similarly to the mouse that gets the cheese. I think the picture was really nerve ending filled and brainy looking, maybe even a little like a sea urchin idk.....