[myrmidon]

Strongly disagree with this.

You can call it smoke and mirrors all you want, but its utility is pretty self-evident- you can really just talk with this thing, and it will give reasonable answers. Is it perfect, or even as good as a human? Hell no, but it for sure is not going to get worse, and it's already remarkable in ways that were barely imaginable only a few years ago...

I have a friend that has been using this as an infinitely patient mentor for learning embedded programming, and chatgpt delivers in that capacity unlike any automated system we had before.

If a glorified autocomplete can fake human intelligence reasonably well, maybe we should question our notions of superiority instead of trashtalking the machines...