ChatGPT: Trust, but verify? Or don't trust at all? It's getting dangerous
Like many people who have been studying artificial intelligence, I was interested to try out the new OpenAI-based ChatGPT interface. Early reports suggest it is good at telling stories, and perhaps plays a little fast and loose with facts. The promise of a general AI bot is captivating. The power of the entire Internet to provide information, natural language processing to figure out what you're looking for and how to respond in a way that's useful, and of course the ability for computers to do what they were originally designed to do: compute. It will make suggestions based on thousands of calculations, all in a few seconds. What if its calculations are wrong? I ran a test today that I expected ChatGPT to ace. It was simple: how much money can you get in a standard briefcase? I knew it would have to do some searching to find the dimensions of bills, the dimensions of briefcases, and do a little math. This could be extended to see how much money could fit in a swimming pool, e