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What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud. Some possible economic and geopolitical implications
(garymarcus.substack.com)
writing semi-automatic code (programmers love using generative tools as assistants)
Do they love it? Because, I've tried to get ChatGPT to write code for me, and it did a fricking awful job.
That seems to be the story of "AI" assistants -- they seem miraculous because they can generate syntactically correct English, or code, or whatever. But when you scrutinize the results, you see that they're producing terrible errors and mediocre pap, at best.
It seems like a technology designed to impress executives more than do actual work.