[mabedan]

It’s a little like saying calculators cannot do math because they don’t really understand numbers or arithmetic and they just do bit operations.

I understand the sentiment, but reality is that it does with words pretty much what you’d expect a person to do. It lacks some fundamentals like creativity and that’s why it’s not doing real problem solving tasks, but it’s well capable of doing mundane tasks that the average person gets paid to do.

And when it comes to trust and accuracy, if I ask it a question about German tax system, it will look up sources and may give an answer with an inaccuracy or two but it will for sure be more accurate than whatever I will be able to do after two hours of research.

[m463]

> calculators cannot do math because they don’t really understand numbers

I don't think that's an appropriate analogy at all.

He's not saying that AI is not useful. He's saying that it doesn't understand or reason, so it does not generate the truth.

So you can ask chatgpt a question about the german tax system, but it would be a mistake to have it do your taxes.

in the same way, a calculator could help with your taxes, because it has been engineered to give precise answers about some math operations, but it cannot do your taxes.

[mabedan]

> so it does not generate the truth.

It’s equally true for humans, benchmarks of intelligence. Most shortcomings in our working life is from miscommunications and misunderstanding requirements, and then simply by incompetence and making trivial mistakes.