Heh. In middle school (OK, over four decades ago now) my friends and I had a specific meaning of the word bullshit that pretty much exactly matches the one her

Heh. In middle school (OK, over four decades ago now) my friends and I had a specific meaning of the word bullshit that pretty much exactly matches the one here for chatgpt. And this is how I've been explaining it to my wife: a really good bullshit generator. (Like Tony, not that that means anything to HN.) I wasn't a good bullshit generator, but I had a couple friends who were (Tony), but by close association I think I know what it's good for, and what it isn't. So don't get me wrong. This kind of bullshit has its uses! The Mrs. Schumachers of the world (that's probably not the name of one of your middle school teachers, but you may still know know I mean) are probably going to figure out to stop accepting bullshit essays turned in for assignments, But a vast amount of work people do is exactly this kind of bullshit. I'm hopeful that these models will alleviate the bullshit burden on those of us who need to generate it but aren't all that great at it (unlike Tony -- that dude is probably apoplectic right now, like those chess grandmasters were when they realized computers could own them. Don't worry Tony, human bullshit is still 10x more valuable than computer bullshit!) Yesterday I had to complete a yearly self evaluation for my company's (purely performative) raise process (which has nothing to do with performance or the self-evaluations, BTW, but we all have to pretend that it does). f-ing chatgpt was down so despite the ~$20 I pay them for it, I had to generate a lot of my own bullshit (I've learned since middle school). IDK... I've been using chatgpt. It's quite useful and makes me more productive. It's also useless for so many things. It does not have basic reasoning. It cannot reliably get basic facts or logic right. You have to aggressively check anything it gives back to you. Anything and everything. I have to argue with people on HN whether these parrots are the singularity. LOL. Chatgpt can't create an AI more capable of creating an AI smarter than it is... not until someone posts it to SO. Get a grip people.