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Has anyone else noticed how this has improved of late. I used to ask questions in Pigeon English but have realised that it can handle normal English and complex questions. Ok..be circumspect with the results but it gets you off to a good start. For example a thread over on the other place prompted me to ask the question

“Which European countries are investing in using excess wind and solar energy to produce hydrogen”

Try it!
 
to be fair - that is what AI actually is - a good search engine with linguistic understanding of the question and an ability to give you an answer phrased to suit you...

what it isn't is any form of intelligence...
 
There was an interesting review done recently to show that AI is strongly skewed in the media it uses - so it will naturally carry that bias across...
Also as more material online is created by AI, so it will all become self-fulfilling...

and curated / firewalled information will become commercially more valuable
 
AI has its place. I enjoyed creating a fake picture of my bed, a while back, but that is pretty harmless.
I sometimes ask Copilot on my phone for info. Sometimes it gives me a good, sensible and useful reply. But all too often it serves me a nonsensical answer (in the same calm, reassuring, confident voice). Sometimes it doesn't even make sense as English, let alone something that is accurate and helpful.
We were recently trying to find a way of getting from here to Jersey. It suggested Blue Island airlines. Now Blue Island went into administration a few months ago.

I really don't trust it. I've told it to FO on more than one occasion.
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I just look at anything AI as a virus and the old saying is very apt " ask no questions and you'll be told no lies ".

On my Pc I have cleansed it of all AI including CoPilot and Ms spyware. As humans we were given a very good mass of grey mater, we should use it to exercise it and don't get sidelined by some AI sorting algorithm that is artificial but not intelligent and can only search for something that matches.
 
As said above, its just a better search engine. But (for example) just like a lot of British history books .... interpret with caution sometimes.
 
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