ChatGPT

[TerryRitchie]

Need to create an account to use the blamed thing. Nope.

Somebody is using it as "alternative psychologist" in another forum I belong to. Make it stop!

I hope it keeps failing to produce useful replies and it just bumps back down to oblivion where it came from. Either it could be a threat, or it could be yet another technological fad. I'm an enemy of this, it's not chat it's garbage.

Just make a throw away email address, that's all it needs to create an account. (the only reason an account is needed is because it remembers your past conversations and builds off of them, such as Eliza did back in the 80's)

It's really interesting to play with. One of the example code it created for me included a library made for FreeBASIC. When I pointed this out it apologized, acknowledged I was correct, and then proceeded to produce the code I requested using only native QB64 commands.

I can see this as a useful tool to throw ideas around and maybe in the future it can be fed code to analyze for suggestions. In fact, ChatGPT told me that the plus versions (ChatGPT+) can be tailored to specific tasks, such as programming (it told me that was the reason it was making programming mistakes, because the general public version is just general knowledge).

It's not "AI", I get that, it's just a very cleverly written relational database, but something that given time might be a helpful tool. I don't know, time will tell I suppose.