> Maybe it's more about using it to reason through your problem in a dialog, and not just ask it something you can google/duckduckgo. Your experience with it s

> Maybe it's more about using it to reason through your problem in a dialog, and not just ask it something you can google/duckduckgo. Your experience with it sounds very similar to my own. It exhibits something like on-demand precision; it's not a system with some fundamental limit to clarity (like Ted Chiang via his jpeg analogy, and others, have argued): it may say something fuzzy and approximate (or straight up wrong) to begin with but—assuming you haven't run into some corner where its knowledge just bottoms out—you can generally just tell it that it made a mistake or ask for it to elaborate/clarify etc., and it'll "zoom in" further and resolve fuzziness/incorrect approximation. There is a certain very powerful type of intelligence within it as well, but you've got to know what it's good at to use it well: from what I can tell it basically comes down to it being very good at identifying "structural similarity" between concepts (essentially the part of cognition which is rooted in analogy-making), allowing it to very effectively make connections between disparate subject matter. This is how it's able to effectively produce original work (though typically it will be directed there by a human): one of my favorite examples of this was someone asking it to write a Lisp program that implements "virtue ethics" (https://twitter.com/zetalyrae/status/1599167510099599360 https://twitter.com/zetalyrae/status/1599167510099599360). I've done a few experiments myself using it to formalize bizarre concepts from other domains and its ability to "reason" in both domains to make decisions about how to formalize, and then generating formalizations, is very impressive. It's not enough for me to say it is unqualifiedly "intelligent", but it imo its ability to do this kind of thing makes it clear why calling it a search engine, or something merely producing interpolated averages (a la Chiang), is so misleading.