Actually they are also getting good at using tools, generating working code for common problems, helping you explore vast bodies of published information (limited by what it has been trained on obviously, particularly Bing chat seems good at this), and a few related topics.
Limiting factors are mainly interfacing with other systems and tools, expanding the training data to include stuff you need (e.g. up to date documentation for whatever you are using vs. the two years out of date stuff it was trained on). This is more a limitation of UX (chat) than it is a limitation of the underlying model.
It's weak on logic problems, math, and a few other things. But then a most people are also not very good at that and you could use tools for that (which is something chat gpt 4 can do). And people hallucinate, lie, and imagine things all the time. And if you follow US politics, there have been a few amusingly bad examples on that front in recent months. To the point where you might wonder if some politicians are using AI to write their speeches; or would be better off doing so.
It's our ability to defer to tools and other people that makes us more capable than each of us individually is. Individually, most of us aren't that impressive.
Even a few years ago, the notion that you could have a serious chat via a laptop with an AI on just about any topic and get coherent responses would have been science fiction. Now it is science fact. Most of the AIs from popular science fiction movies (Space Odyssey, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.) are actually not that far of from what chat GPT 4 can do. Or arguably a bit retarded even (usually for comedic effect). You can actually get chat gpt to role play those.
Limiting factors are mainly interfacing with other systems and tools, expanding the training data to include stuff you need (e.g. up to date documentation for whatever you are using vs. the two years out of date stuff it was trained on). This is more a limitation of UX (chat) than it is a limitation of the underlying model.
It's weak on logic problems, math, and a few other things. But then a most people are also not very good at that and you could use tools for that (which is something chat gpt 4 can do). And people hallucinate, lie, and imagine things all the time. And if you follow US politics, there have been a few amusingly bad examples on that front in recent months. To the point where you might wonder if some politicians are using AI to write their speeches; or would be better off doing so.
It's our ability to defer to tools and other people that makes us more capable than each of us individually is. Individually, most of us aren't that impressive.
Even a few years ago, the notion that you could have a serious chat via a laptop with an AI on just about any topic and get coherent responses would have been science fiction. Now it is science fact. Most of the AIs from popular science fiction movies (Space Odyssey, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.) are actually not that far of from what chat GPT 4 can do. Or arguably a bit retarded even (usually for comedic effect). You can actually get chat gpt to role play those.