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Yes, it is new. And it will change (significantly?) over time.
The problem, though, is an old one: people are lazy. Given a new tool to help them do a job, they'll quickly use it to do the job, without oversight or a critical eye.
So what difference does it make if you're getting misinformation from an automated device, or a politician, a newscaster, or your neighbor Paul. If you don't take time to verify, then what does it matter.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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They started AI research in the 50s.
Lisp is a programming language created about 1960 specifically for doing research in AI.
ChatGPT comes from OpenAI which was started in 2015 as a non-profit specifically to use existing (prior) knowledge of AI to research it.
ChatGPT is actually the third generation of something based on what they were working on.
So not really sure how any of this counts as "very new".
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I'll do like I did with digital cameras, I'll wait till things get 'good enough' before I invest my time with the bots.
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Al Fargnoli wrote: strings phrases together partially based on the frequency of those phrases
Which describes many click bait sites also. So are they intelligent?
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Almost as "intelligent" as a LLM-based chat bot!
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Cpichols wrote: These AI seem to have no concept of the difference between fact and fiction.
The key word in the name is "Artificial". Anyone with half a brain knows that these machines have nothing anywhere close to intelligence.
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Can you pass the bar exam?
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Myself I haven't tried.
But in quite a few place in the US one does not need to be a lawyer to be a judge.
One does not need to go to law school to take the bar exam.
There are practicing lawyers that have not passed the bar exam.
A lawyer was sanctioned because they submitted case law extracted from ChatGPT which was entirely made up.
Myself I can drive a car in the snow and maneuver around construction cones without running into the side of truck. Hopefully you can do the same. Hopefully you do not rely on your self driving car to do that.
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Can lawyers write specifications? designs? computer programs?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Cpichols wrote: These AI seem to have no concept of the difference between fact and fiction.
Why would they? They get fed the internet: GIGO applies!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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AI is just a learning algorithm. It predicts behavior based on previously known inputs and learns to predict the correct output based on these. The problem is that it needs a massive amount of data to be able to do this.
What I would love to see is an AI that could read the documentation and be able to just answer your questions from this documentation. Or better, you just type what you want to do in a console in the respective program, and the AI finds out what you want it to do and does it.
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I was thinking more generally. If you have say a GIS program you could just type: I want to create a plot of the current view, and it just does it.
The AI you suggested seems to be a coder and code reviewer?
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My link was for the coder.
I do not use it - but you can sign up for the technical preview.
They also announce an AI for docs
GitHub Next | Copilot for Docs[^]
But you can only join the waitlist (whatever this means).
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Maybe I can ask the AI for docs on what it means. Oh snap 
I would also love to just give an AI a plot and ask it to make a game of it in the style of Witcher 3 
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a Few months from now we should start seeing "Note: This answer is deprecated, please update to version 4.101" 
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Cpichols wrote: These AI seem to have no concept of the difference between fact and fiction....
Err...not sure I see much difference between what you are stating and basically every click bait site. Plus quite a few other sites. Not to mention posts by many individuals.
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There's is no "one" AI. Each one is custom-tailored, by a "creator", to pursue their agenda; probably at your expense. At a minimum, it captures "you" while you're busy conversing with "it" (i.e. the "creator's" data banks).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Takes me back to the "good 'ol days" as a student when we "copied" answers from a book, only to realize the answer is not working for our app needs... The AI back then were called "... 101 for dummies".
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Cpichols wrote: These AI seem to have no concept of the difference between fact and fiction.
That is totally incorrect -- "AI" have no concept of anything.
There is no "intelligence" in "artificial intelligence". In simplest terms, any "AI" is just a huge, nested if-then-else.
When programming, it's up to the programmer to ensure that an if-then-else is testing the correct things, and is testing them correctly. If there is any point of failure, the results will be wrong at least some of the time.
Machine learning works by feeding it massive amounts of data, and later indicating which is correct and which is not. As has been pointed out, it gets better with training.
The problem is that it will never be 100% correct, yet people are already trusting these systems as being so. There is no discrimination, just a lot of tests that must be correct, yet can't be.
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