Here Jason of Archiax proves that Chat GPT isn't even real A.I., it totally fabricated references for things that he asked it for various topics and it made it all up.
AI is very good in making things up. I've been telling this very often ...
It cannot check for reality, the user has to do this. It creates several trains of thoughts internally and shows the most probable to you from the AI's perspective/programming. This isn't necessarily a correct one. One should not use it for topics of which oneself has no clue about, because then there is no chance to check whether the AI is simulating or not. It is very practical to search things like books etc. Also to find sources, but one has to ask for links, citations and page numbers and do a counter check. Especially if it extracts data from tables etc. It does mistakes in finding things, even if it has shown the right parameters to search for. But nontheless it is a great tool and it will improve over time. And it is not always wrong, it can do math very quickly and apply formulas etc. correctly. But it must always be controlled. Otherwise you do BS in - BS out. It is unclear when it does the mistakes. They may be very simple, while very complex stuff is done correctly ...
AI can still be used to do things much quicker, like writing a nice text from already collected sources, etc.
It did give him page number references and authors, which didn't exist what so ever.....NONE of the references he asked for were real, some of the authors were but it fabricated every one of those references when he asked for a certain topic, instead of saying I cannot find any references to this topic.
That is in my book, lying...and the have A.I. tutoring children in school. This is a warning that A.I. is going to dumb people down, and they'll think that these things are real, when they are just making stuff up. I'd rather just use a browser, at least if there's nothing there it can find on the topic, it will tell you.
They want to replace browsers with A.I. and that is scarey, it picks stuff out for you instead of saying there's nothing there, it makes it up. I hope the take A.I. out of the schools for tutoring, or looking up things because I can see it now, people getting into arguements over A.I. saying it was in this book or that book and it never was, and the author didn't even exist in academic journals.
I'll keep my browser. And they want this A.I. to govern cities...the 15 minute cities that will be all over once they get the infrastructure set up. Best hope they don't, these facilities require alot of electricity and people are already experiencing the rise in cost. The movie The matrix comes to mind.