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...but it isn’t programming in the traditional sense at all. It’s a network of simulated neurons trained on billions of documents. Responses aren’t predictable. This isn’t anything like what we’ve seen before. I’ll agree that it isn’t ‘thinking’...it’s responding to prompts and providing ‘the most probable next word’ in an iterative process that results in sentences, paragraphs, etc.

For anything technical it’s an incredible learning tool. Ask it details on technical topics and learn very quickly. It can be the reverse of a search engine...instead of searching key words, bumbling through results, reading from sources of varying quality or applicability, it brings the relevant details to you without effort.

I’ve used ChatGPT python libraries to integrate with local systems, defining callback functions for it to call, giving it the ability to execute local code. I’ve developed an in-vehicle assistant with voice recognition and text-to-speech, I can talk to it about anything - then say where I want to navigate to, or what music to play, control other vehicle features I’ve defined API’s for, etc., and it’ll respond with the callback functions as appropriate. I can interact with vehicle features in a way I’ve never seen before...along with it playing games with me (explain you’re a character in an adventure game, based on a book, what the goal is, etc.).

This isn’t ‘dumb’...even if it isn’t ‘thinking’. It’s insanely useful and is a vast new space for applications. One thing it does better than ANY HUMAN....quickly summarize a topic, especially a technical one, being able to write articulate, concise, structured, and detailed text faster than anyone...done in seconds.

...but it isn’t programming in the traditional sense at all. It’s a network of simulated neurons trained on billions of documents.

Not traditional programming? But, still it's programming. Meaning that, it' programmed with a lot more data/information available to it. With more data or information available, of course it's going to come up with a lot more 'useful' information than any system before. In the future, a lot more useful info will become available, thereby making the systems seem 'more intelligent'. In essence, the more info, the more things seem to be intelligently produced.

It's about the intelligence, stupid. (And I'm not calling you stupid, btw.). Intelligence is still about a lot more than data or information. Data or information cannot produce 'intelligent results', without the intelligence, and the intelligence is still what's trying to emulate what humans do, but they're still way off in that department. For example, can an AI app look at the heavens and 'wonder' how things got that way, and why, and by whom?. Only a human can try to absorb what's available in his/her environment and try to figure it all out. A computer with AI has to be fed that environmental information, and then it will be stuck with doing nothing about it all. A human comes equipped with the intelligence to do something about what he sees or feels and hears and touches and smells. AI has to be told the information, but can't react on its own with more intelligent questions and answers.

Human are still trying to do what they've done with computers for ages, and the main difference today is the vast amount of information that's available and how it's organized. In essence, AI organizes the information a bit more intelligently than in the past, but it's still not 'intelligence'.

One thing it does better than ANY HUMAN....quickly summarize a topic, especially a technical one, being able to write articulate, concise, structured, and detailed text faster than anyone...done in seconds.

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