This thought entered my mind today as I came across a thread on Quora, and noticed that they have added a feature where ChatGPT would have a go at answering the question.
Today alone I have used a few varying “AI” tools, including one which automatically paraphrases text for you, one which analyses your writing in SwiftKey as you type, and of course the big players like Bard and Bing Chat. It got me thinking about whether these features are actually valuable, and if we would start to see them on this platform.
It’s not odd, we’re just able to read for understanding. No one is asking if we want colour correction in photos here, just like no one is asking if we want linear regressions or MCMC models.
They’re asking do we want to include generative LLMs.
I think the crux of the issue is that corporations are quick to throw around the term “AI” as it’s a buzz word, and the lay person does not know what it means other than “smart-ish”. I’d argue that there is no real AI in existence (yet).