This is one of the best things I've come across to explain for an average human being how to think of what that chatbot extruded as an answer to your prompt.
The reason people "want" it to be something that does something else is because Scam Altman and all the AI boosters are out there have been for years now TELLING PEOPLE THAT IT DOES WHAT IT CAN'T DO. They've been telling people it can do what it can't, and HIDING the reality of its limitations from everyone.
Even doctors. And teachers. And everyone.
Because nobody would spend so much money to buy something that can't do what it can't do!!!!!
People don't understand because they're being lied to. I've been recommending Angela Collier's "AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway" youtube video for TWO F'n YEARS now.
So part of the problem is that the biggest users of this product actually don't WANT to understand. Some people are paid to not understand, and others are hooked because it's like a gambling device. It's like trying to convince people about smoking or vaping, or anything else they *really really* like.
EDIT: I almost feel like this is propaganda put out there to take away the culpability of OpenAI and put it on the consumers. Like the consumers wanted it to be something it's not. Like the consumers REFUSED to understand, when in fact they were lied to. Like make it the consumers fault, the way they're trying to do that with data centers...
This kinda misses the point though.
The reason people "want" it to be something that does something else is because Scam Altman and all the AI boosters are out there have been for years now TELLING PEOPLE THAT IT DOES WHAT IT CAN'T DO. They've been telling people it can do what it can't, and HIDING the reality of its limitations from everyone.
Even doctors. And teachers. And everyone.
Because nobody would spend so much money to buy something that can't do what it can't do!!!!!
People don't understand because they're being lied to. I've been recommending Angela Collier's "AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway" youtube video for TWO F'n YEARS now.
So part of the problem is that the biggest users of this product actually don't WANT to understand. Some people are paid to not understand, and others are hooked because it's like a gambling device. It's like trying to convince people about smoking or vaping, or anything else they *really really* like.
EDIT: I almost feel like this is propaganda put out there to take away the culpability of OpenAI and put it on the consumers. Like the consumers wanted it to be something it's not. Like the consumers REFUSED to understand, when in fact they were lied to. Like make it the consumers fault, the way they're trying to do that with data centers...
https://youtu.be/qb008skg3iY
Brian Merchant has written about similar efforts to sort of say it's just a moral panic as deflection, when people have died.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-500-billion-tech-companys-core