The mood in the technology industry is bad at the moment.
Many companies are laying off employees, investors are holding back.
But even in this bleak environment, there are bright spots, and the willingness to get excited about technology is undiminished.
This is shown by the great hype surrounding ChatGPT, software from the American company Open AI that answers all kinds of queries with amazing quality and versatility.
For many of its users, this is a pretty gimmick at first, but there is tremendous potential for disruption in this technology.
Even the Internet company Google has to ask itself whether the lucrative business with its search engine could be threatened.
ChatGPT still has significant weaknesses today, as Open AI itself admits, but shows a way of what artificial intelligence (AI) could one day be able to do.
This will also entail many discussions about the downsides of such technologies.
But first of all, with ChatGPT, Open AI has set an exclamation mark for the innovative power in the technology industry - and underlined that even in a time when the tech giants often appear unassailable, the market conditions do not have to be unshakable.