@IronRod @hydn Great responses!
The fact that it can review my work and provide suggested improvements, bring into the mix other research, identify security issues, etc., is incredibly helpful.
Yet, is it always right? Absolutely not; it is knowledgeable but it is not intelligent.
Exactly! That’s what I use it for, and only if needed. It helped me when I couldn’t solve some problems, and I learned a lot, but I was always aware that I should take AI replies with a grain of salt and check everything by myself.
One great thing I found out is that it can provide better answers than a Google search (or whatever search engine use). Why? Because it’s got everything indexed, while search engines (yeah, even Google itself) bring you results according to other parameters like SEO and how well a site content can be understood by the AI. And I found out that ChatGPT brought me the right answer either right away or after a couple hours of checking, trying and asking again, while searching for the right answer on a search engine gave me dozens of pages filled up with stuff that had nothing to do. And myabe THE reply was buried in page #100 of search results.
But this misuse isn’t an “AI” problem it’s a human problem.
Exactly! (Sorry, I use that word a lot 
). I remember a couple years ago, people selling courses about how to use ChatGPT to organize your day. And even nowadays, tech blogs keep writing about it, literally how to let GPT or Gemini tell you what to do and how to do it. No thinking at all.
In the end, I think we’re in the very first days of something that will grow and find its own way eventually, maybe not in our life span, maybe in the next generation or the next after that or after several generations… Remember the autonomous robots on Star Wars? All of them, not just C3PO and R2D2; even the small domestic robot seen on Andor. And even something like Data, the android from Star Trek The Next Generation. Or Isaac Asimov’s robots from his novels The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn. Different levels of autonomous units.
Remember the very first cell phones? Those were literally the size of a brick, and attached to their hardware that was the size of a backpack. Decades later, they became so small that you could hide one in the palm of your hand. And that was right before smartphones.
What I mean is that, as nowadays AI datacenters are enormous and eat up an unthinkable amount of resources, there will come a day when that will fit in the size of an android or even a domestic robot. I think it’ll be a couple centuries from now.