Cynical thought: "it IS just a parrot, but so are a large percentage of humanity, particularly those who are uncritically enthusiastic about any so-called progr

Cynical thought: "it IS just a parrot, but so are a large percentage of humanity, particularly those who are uncritically enthusiastic about any so-called progress" AI might turn out to be a disaster not because it is smarter than us, but because stupid people will believe it is and come to rely on it, even more so than they already do on Google or Wikipedia. What really strikes me about the ChatGPT output I have seen is the tone of complete confidence with which it delivers answers (except when it is programmed to respond "as a language model I cannot blah blah blah"). For me that is something which provokes an instant negative emotional reaction to what is said, because things rarely are that simple and clear cut, and any person or machine pretending that they are seems likely to me to be either simple-minded or trying to con me / advance some agenda. That most people apparently don't have that reaction to it is frightening to me.