Just be happy with plausible sounding answers people. Sheesh!
Regardless, I find it silly to focus on the small flaws when we're witnessing a foundational shift in what kind of problems we can solve.
If i ask it for the dimensions of a product and it gives the wrong figures it should just tell me it doesn't know instead of inventing something.
That's the problem. It doesn't tell you when something is wrong so you can never trust if it's right unless you happen to know the field. That makes it far less useful.
The key is to verify... and that's true for AI and people too, though for sure that's not something people are used to do sadly.
However, verifying results is and will always be important. Iterating on the prompts and alternative paths is also important.
But even as it is right now, it is very useful to a lot of people. Remember, a lot of people accepted self-driving cars that can drive themselves off roads and crash into trailers, even paid extra for it, while this is just text generation for now.
I see that it is going to transform everything. No technical revolution has ever been more readily apparent. We now have an interface to talk to computers that can translate unstructured raw language into other formats. This is the real innovation that will unlock the power of more specialized, more advanced models in the near future.
It's not merely UI changes.
Or like crypto was about to revolutionize the world in 2010 ?
Or maybe like we would have fully autonomous cars "in two years" in 2012 ?
I might be a pessimistic grandpa but it's not worse than a blind technophile