ChatGPT (especially GPT-4) is the leanest, meanest Prolog engine known to mankind. It absolutely slays on inference tasks if you state some data and rules upfro

ChatGPT (especially GPT-4) is the leanest, meanest Prolog engine known to mankind. It absolutely slays on inference tasks if you state some data and rules upfront. It knows how to translate between structured formats and natural language. That's not nothing. You could do this earlier, maybe, if you had a lot of specialised AI knowledge. Now, someone like me, with little AI training but plenty of programming skill, can "feel it out" and start to do useful tasks with a dozen hours practice. Even if it's a wasteful way to process/translate data, it's still huge. Electron somehow won out over native apps thanks to ease of use, for example.