I don't understand the drift this thread has taken, but I do would like to understand a bit more what AI is.
I watched a demo of ChatGPT, and all it seemed to me was an interface that pretty-prints Internet results better than a search engine, making them look more "conversational", but in the end it's just the good 'ole rows and columns.
As this doesn't really count as "intelligence" (it doesn't really create anything new, it doesn't generate new knowledge out of pre-existing elements), I assumed it was just a rebranding of what a few years ago was called "machine learning"; from time to time someone shakes a new concept around to give everybody a lot of uuhs and aahs about "the future that is coming", I remember they did that when Internet first appeared too, and it was going to make all humans obsolete and eat our babies.
Then I've tried listening to some AI generated music, and watched some AI generated art, and found them absolutely insipid (how could they be otherwise, as a machine cannot replicate human emotion), so this added to my impression that "AI" is just the fad of the day.
Am I wrong or missing something? In which way could this stuff be "revolutionary"? To me it all sounds like one more spin of the same usual crap. Before this it was the Internet of Things, The Cloud, Industry 2.0., whatever the hip word en vogue, then nothing or very little comes out of it, and the word gets replaced by the next one in a few months...