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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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