[rainytuesday]

It's impact is going to dwarf everything that came before it, but maybe the invention of the graphical user-interface. It requires no sales pitch, its immediately useful, its utility is obvious, its the fasting growing app in history. It's going to be integrated into everything: your smart-speaker, your ring doorbell, all productivity software (photoshop, visual studio...), search engines... what else... your tesla? McDonalds ordering kiosk... call centers... some system that gives you a social credit score, drones.. what else... a new generation of industrial robots...

[yarg]

Its utility is extremely limited - it cannot be vetted and it has already been seen reporting delusions as facts.

It cannot be used in any scenario where the results need to be reliable.

[Gustomaximus]

Couldn't the same be said of Google, or especially search engines in general during the early internet days?

For me, I dont know if ChatGPT will be significant or the Palm Pilot to todays iPhone, but I do feel this AI path is going to be a game changing for human development some time in the not too distant future, hopefully for the better.

[yarg]

It's a step along the path, but it's being paraded as something close to the final destination.

Right now I'm worried about the consequences of over-estimating its capabilities - AI that almost does the right thing is going to be misused.

[euroderf]

When it invents an API out of thin air, should that be considered a recommendation ? The APIs that are hallucinated - are they good, sensible, well-structured APIs ?

I ask because I have no experience with A.I.s inventing APIs.

[rainytuesday]

Hook it up to an IDE and tell it that it must iterate until it compiles.