You’re right, but it’s actually even worse than that. What is the definition of “known information?” Turning an AI large language model loose, using as its knowledge base the unfathomable tangle of facts, errors, truth, lies, and opinions of every type on the internet, and then expecting it to somehow (magic?) come up with consistently rational and accurate answers is idiotic. This drive for “general AI” is nothing less than the atheistic materialists’ pursuit of a “god” that they believe they can control, and which will require nothing of them (which is the primary drive behind atheism in general -they hate the notion that there might be a real God who outranks them).
But this materialistic mindset causes them to make false assumptions about the nature of thought, intelligence, and consciousness. They refuse to acknowledge the existence of the soul, so they must ascribe every characteristic that makes someone “human” to nothing more than biochemical and electrical processes in the brain. THAT is how we got to where we are now, with these morons believing that all it will take is a sufficiently advanced computer to equal and then surpass human thought.
That said, AI will most likely exceed human abilities at solving narrowly-defined problems, like playing chess or even driving a car (though even that task contains enough uncertainty and unpredictability that it will take longer than expected to make it reliable and safe enough). Where AI will shine is in its ability to access information from a wide variety of sensors that can give it more situational awareness than a human can achieve via his five senses, and in its incredible speed at processing incoming data. That is why it has certain advantages at driving a car (even though right now it is still far too susceptible to making a “rookie” mistake that could get the occupants killed). The AI “driver” can see in all directions, has access to sensors like night vision and radar, and can process everything its sensors see at lightning speed. This are big advantages for doing something like driving a car. But that is a far cry from trying to turn AI into an all-knowing oracle that can answer every human query.
The thing about AI not being intelligence is that it cannot determine the most appropriate or best outcomes. It knows nothing of purpose.
I have been playing chess against computers and computerized chess sets for many decades... I don’t think that many people called this AI back when I started. It was a good way to improve my game to the point that I typically beat pretty much everyone that wanted to play chess with me.
In the early 90s I purchased an AI suite of programs... but at that time it was nearly useless.
So, I originally thought this recent proliferation of AI apps and websites was mostly hype... until I actually started using them on a daily basis. Now I am getting vastly more useful information back from computers and phones with less effort than ever before. And various apps and websites are incredibly helpful with various types of creative endeavors as well.
It is not perfect obviously, but as an example, for fun I wanted to host several websites on an inexpensive mini-pc using WordPress all with free SSL/TLS certificates without a static IP connection to the internet. This is the type of thing that most people here would not know how to get started setting up... and without using AI to help by writing scripts, quite tedious as well.
Both Chat GPT and Grok were able to come up with solutions for this that eliminated most of the tediousness. And I learned quite a bit as well. So here is an example of a silly WordPress website with a free https certificate with content that was almost completely setup using AI and with content generated with AI hosted on a $150 computer that is hooked to the internet with a dynamic IP connection.
The computer uses just 5 to 10 watts at idle, so I just leave it on most of the time. The website is on a Virtual Machine running WordPress in Apache2 on Ubuntu Server.
This is completely rudimentary but an example of how AI can be helpful setting up websites.
Wait till AI watches the movie “Terminator”....!!