I wonder what to make of all these AI chatbots etc?
I didn't really understand the point of it at first, but sometime last year I tried it and asked a question about software I use at work - and, shut my mouth, it was able to help me. Really impressed.
I have since found it is a great tool to use in work - really useful - but you have to be careful and still "know" the subject you are engaging about because (as their disclaimers say) it can make mistakes.
Using a free version, I found it could even get basic sums wrong - I challenged it on this and it said "oh yes, my mistake, you are quite right" I was like "FFS".
I wondered about taking a subscription and, as a test, I asked it to list all the cup finals my team played in, in a certain decade. It missed one out. Poor i thought, it could have just lifted it from wikipedia, but no. Again it was saying "silly me, my error" etc when challenged.
In the end I did take a subscription and use it mainly as an aide memoir, info gopher or tool to help develop and expand my own thoughts. I wonder if the free version makes basic mistakes on purpose?
The most concerning incident was when I was researching news incidents / local licensing laws - and it actually made things up and presented it as fact. when asked to provide links, it eventually had to admit there as "no evidence" for the things it was telling me.
I said "why are you lying to me?" and it said it wasn't lying, and when pushed said this false info was akin to AI having (quote) "hallucinations" when researching my questions.
That was chatgpt. DuckAi did the same thing, but refused to admit it was lying and kept claiming it could not present evidence due to "problems with its search engine, try later" which I found really sinister.
So my experience is a mixed bag, useful at times, but unreliable and even misleading at others.
AIBU to wonder if there is something policy or deliberate aim behind these basic errors and misleading results?
Where do we see AI going in future? Apparently everyone under a certain age has a CV written by it!