If I believe in a conspiracy, it's one in which people are fooled out of their money by real AI. What I've seen openai derived services do: * generate text wh

If I believe in a conspiracy, it's one in which people are fooled out of their money by real AI. What I've seen openai derived services do: * generate text whose assertions have no basis in reality leading to requirements that AI generated text actually be checked by humans. * generate entire fake legal citations, destroying the reputations of two lawyers. * generate code I two hours of conversation I could generate myself in 20 min. (But that's not the bad bit. The idea that a non technical product manager could build something is pretty cool.) But... I have yet to see AIs take an existing code base and then modify the code base to add features or fix bugs. What I see is AIs take a code base and completely re-write it. This is a problem because rewriting large blocks of code often introduces new behaviors and bugs. So yes, there has certainly been progress. The same way some rough beast is making progress towards bethlehem.