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Re:ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time by chx on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:07PM (#34645268)
> It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philosopher/etc that can explain things quite well, but for pretty much every field.

No it can not explain anything. It's a (stochastic) parrot, nothing more.

> Yep, but it is such an incredibly useful tool

It is not. You are fooling yourself. You are building a castle on a swamp.

Re:ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time by vehemenz on Friday February 03, 2023 @04:43PM (#34648128)
ChatGPT tells me that Disney World's Magic Kingdom was built on a swamp.

It's just a tool. You don't use a shovel to rake leaves, but that doesn't make a shovel any less useful.