That question is a little big for my britches, but as an English teacher, I feel only total despair for what's coming. My job is going to become a lot more difficult in a hurry. It's already pretty much impossible to teach teenagers how to read and write (especially at a high level), and this thing is going to take a sledgehammer to our kneecaps.
I wanna know the difference between “field stripping” a fir tree, and just regular “cut the branches off”
Yeah, I just think people have misjudged what it actually is. It's not really an "AI" even though it kind of looks like one because it appears to communicate. It simply models language - it will happily invent new things as long as they look like old things that it already knows. I use it at work sometimes to create starter scripts - it's a pretty nice way to bootstrap a quick script that will be 80% correct without any effort. But sometimes it'll do funny things, like invent brand new interfaces or script commands that don't actually exist, but seem logical. The fundamental idea of whether something is "true" is pretty hazy when we're talking about language models. @Aetius I do think that's going to be an interesting effect of tools like this - when you use it create things, but those creations become a primary part of the training material, the tool loses the ability to adapt to new situations.
It could certainly change the playing field for things like automated QA testing and things like that. There are some really cool AI (ML projects) out there that are interesting as Hell, but it seems like true AI is still decades away, if ever.
Egg sandwiches. Sub sandwiches. Bacon cheddar soup. Pizza. Cheese stuffed crust pizza. Nachos. Cold smoking blocks to keep and gift. Snacks. Stick it in my butt, who cares? At $.97 for the slices and $5.67 for the 2lb blocks that have expiration dates way the fuck out.... I'll do everything with the cheese.