Can't remember whether I read about it here or somewhere else, but apparently there was a recent episode in which a lawyer got an AI machine to write a legal brief for him. It looked impressive, but it turned out the precedents the brief cited didn't exist; the AI made them up. The judge fined the lawyer.
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote. -Abraham Albert Michelson in 1903 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Dean Kent Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 12:46 I spent a bit of time playing with chatGPT to see what it could do. So did my two sons - one an MS in biotech, the other a PhD in theoretical physics. We all came to the same conclusion - chatGPT is a very, very good Google search that can filter many different possible 'answers' and come to one that is 'most likely' based on various factors. It has little to no creativity or understanding of what it is asked to do. Not surprising, but different than what the popular press seems to say about it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
