I suspect this is due to a fundamental misunderstanding of what tools like ChatGPT actually are, what their capabilities are, etc. I think there is a large popu

I suspect this is due to a fundamental misunderstanding of what tools like ChatGPT actually are, what their capabilities are, etc. I think there is a large population of people who think they're simply more sophisticated versions of Siri. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the vast majority of people don't even realize they're powered by different things, but instead just see the "marketing term currently known as AI" as a singular monolithic entity, and all related technology just gets lumped into the same category. That's miles away from understanding how "use a language model to interpret what I'm asking you to search for, and then plug that into a normal search engine, and read me back the most relevant result", is fundamentally different from "use a language model to predict the stastically most likely next sequence of tokens based on the ones you gave me." I don't mean this as a way of thumbing my nose at people who don't know this stuff, but rather, to point out what a massive failure the completely nonexistent consumer education surrounding ML products has been.