Yes, it's a short leap from AI mimicking Puff Daddy to developing a cure for cancer.
Do you believe when ChatGPT slowly types out its answers it's truly thinking, as we would when we type out an answer? Or do you believe it could post the whole answer all at once, if it wanted to? If you grant, which I'm sure you will, that the typing out is an innocent effect, mostly for fun, then put your critical hat back on!
Why should we wait for the cure for cancer if AI already knows it? Why should we wait for anything that can help us. WHY IS AI purposely slowing things down for us! Just a "cool" effect?
For what it's worth, I've been programming computers for 40+ years. When the first consumer version of an AI language came out, Borland Prolog (v2 1986), I was ready to take my power to the next level!
What about CPUs do you think have changed, quantitatively, since then? Nothing. They're just faster and hold more data. There are chips focused on "neural" computing. How they work, I admit I couldn't exactly explain. But I have never had a problem where one of them would help me.
If you don't work with computers how can you say AI is going to bring the changes you claim?
I could go on and on. Focus on why they do the "typing effect." I love you to death, but you're being played as a sucker. Sorry!
What ChatGPT is what Google used to be before all the advertising took over and most information went behind paywalls. In a sense, ChatGPT takes information behind those paywalls and re-writes it to obscure copyright and then "resells" it to you. Of course, you don't pay now, just like you didn't pay for Google in the beginning.
Consider this. If you wrote something about a made up character in history and others did too, lets say 5 years ago, and you asked ChatGPT to tell you about this person, what do you think it would report back? As a programmer I can see how it is taking other people's solutions to problems (that weren't really solutions but no one said so, they just let the matter drop) and claiming them as solutions. It can't tell!
Cheers my favorite UK writer!
