[chmod775]

> superior skills to a student in any number of fields

It's abhorrent any time we measure pure distilled intelligence.

When asked to come up with any non-basic novel algorithm and data structure, it creates nonsense.

Especially when you ask it to create vector instruction friendly memory layouts and it can't code in its preferred way. I had some fun trying to make it spit out a brute-force-ish solver for a problem involving basic orbital mechanics and some forces. Wouldn't even want try something more complicated. It can do generalized solvers somewhat, since it can copy that homework, but none that can express the kinds of terms you'd be working with (despite those also having code available in some research papers).

Speaking of which, it cannot even figure out some basic truths in orbital mechanics that can be somewhat easily derived from the formulas commonly given, nine times out of ten (you can get there if you're very patient and are able to filter its wrong answers).

But at the end of the day it was still a valuable tool to me as I was learning these things myself, since despite being often wrong, it nevertheless spat out useful things I could plug into Google to find more trustworthy sources that would teach me. Really neat if you're going in blind into a new subject.