just saying what it thought you wanted to hear
That's the whole point of AIs, the results they provide are statistical likelihoods, not actual reasoning, let alone knowledge or wisdom gained through experience.
We are being sold an empty lie, with the sole intent I believe, to have us willing submit our best ideas to the AI platform, so that those who control it can profit from it.
These AI platforms have already been scaled back for public use because they were deemed "too powerful" because people were using them in "unexpected" ways, meaning, ways that would subvert the world control and power paradigm.
So true. That's why I only asked it to do something I'd ask an intern to do.
I'd never involve it in something important.
Most people are being wowed by the toy-like circus tricks it can do.
Programmers are going to be out of a job? Not likely, as your task demonstrates, you still have to think like a programmer to have it perform your desired task as you wish, otherwise potential disaster ensues.
Even AGI is not going to be a magic genie, simply because you're going to have to think through very carefully what the rules and constraints are.
If we get to the point where AGI can anticipate or "mind read", then we are in trouble, because of the unintended consequences of non-specified, pre-empted actions AGI would take when it determines our "subconscious" desires.
Such activity will be enabled and driven by those who own and control the AGI, wanting to take advantage of and profit from the end user, in exactly the same manner the big social media platforms currently do. I'd go far as to say they will be the first to do it.