Couldn't the same be said of Google, or especially search engines in general during the early internet days?

For me, I dont know if ChatGPT will be significant or the Palm Pilot to todays iPhone, but I do feel this AI path is going to be a game changing for human development some time in the not too distant future, hopefully for the better.

It's a step along the path, but it's being paraded as something close to the final destination.

Right now I'm worried about the consequences of over-estimating its capabilities - AI that almost does the right thing is going to be misused.

When it invents an API out of thin air, should that be considered a recommendation ? The APIs that are hallucinated - are they good, sensible, well-structured APIs ?

I ask because I have no experience with A.I.s inventing APIs.

Hook it up to an IDE and tell it that it must iterate until it compiles.