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 like, I was never bullish on blockchain tech because, despite admitting it was kind of neat as a technology, no matter how hard I thought about it I couldn't imagine a use case for it that wasn't pants-on-head insane, but if you can't think of 10 useful things you can do with a simple conversational AI at the level of ChatGPT, you are not trying hard enough 
 "what if we put medical records on the blockchain" utter privacy nightmare, wildly inefficient, and hell, it would be amazing if we could get the medical industry to use Postgres 
 "what if Alexa wasn't dogshit" okay, now I'm listening