I asked Chat-GPT aboout Elon’s salute, just for fun, and it replied it could not analyse pictures and I needed to describe it to him. I had pictures analysed before, even traslating and explaining a cartoon joke. I tought it could be caused by the .webp format. So I retried the joke image and it worked fine. I uploaded a png of Elon and it went wrong. Can others repeat the experience or was it just a fluke? I am not angry just let down a little.
Some of the models have access to the Internet, and it can process information very fast. As long as it is neutral, it can be “trusted” as far as, it is trying. So you can send it off on a journey to scrape web pages for you and speed a search 30fold. If you’ve used it long enough to know the difference between the hallucinations and mistakes, it can accelerate your work, your learning, your research. You know it’s just regurgitating the Internet and you lens appropriately. You can ask about disparate products and have a table generated to fix the disparate values in their specs. You can have it search large datasets and find errors without having to scroll for 30 minutes. It can regurgitate general learning (that you cross-reference to be sure) and accelerate said learning.
Yes, there is no intelligence to it (neural nets are digital neurons, per se, but that doesn’t mean intelligence), but it is a query-response system that has advantages versus using the current enshittified Internet directly.
Now that it is obviously biased and tainted, no form of it can be trusted. That’s the difference.