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Very well said. I enjoyed this infusion of optimism about our AI-enabled future

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Students should work on their handwriting since ChatAI might lead to a return of hand-written essays in school.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/alarmed-ai-chatbots-universities-start-183726723.html

The response in academia has begun. A good article worth looking at to see what direction things might take in the near future.

Maybe ChatGPT will serve as an intuition pump. But quite a few people would like to see the algorithms and what material was used to train the AI.

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The problem with AI is that it tends to over promise and under deliver. We have already experienced two AI Winters and a third would not surprise me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence

The claims of AI should be taken with a large grain of salt.

You could counter by claiming that this time is different but we have seen this claim debunked before in the field of economics as documented by Rogoff and Reinhart in their book "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly." Just do not be surprised when you are disappointed by the promises of AI.

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