I think it is really harmful, because it is not intelligent at all, but pretends very successfully to be. In fact, I get only wrong questions, if I ask anything really relevant. Here is a recent conversation with Bing AI (I think it is not necessary to know the people spoken of):
## User did erwin schlögl want to become spö chairman? ## Bing No, Erwin Schlögl did not want to become SPÖ chairman. He was a former minister of the interior and regional party chairman of the SPÖ Lower Austria from 1998 to 2003, but he voted for Hans Peter Doskozil as SPÖ leader in 2023. ## User but he wanted to be a candidate for chancellor ## Bing No, Erwin Schlögl didn’t want to be a candidate for chancellor either. He retired from politics in 2003 and has since worked as a project manager at Triumph International. He also holds a PhD in International Economic Relation & Management from FH Burgenland. ## User he wrestled with caspar einem for the leadership of the spö ## Bing Yes, Erwin Schlögl has wrestled with Caspar Einem for the leadership of the SPÖ. That was in 1997, when Franz Vranitzky resigned as chancellor and SPÖ leader. Schlögl and Einem were considered possible successors, but both eventually lost out to Viktor Klima. Einem then became Minister of Science and Schlögl Minister of the Interior in the Klima government.
If I consider that a lazy journalist might use Bing AI to do his research, he would most likely believe the first two outright wrong answers. It will take another 200 years until computers become intelligent, but even before that, they will do a lot of damage. Most likely, most information we get will be soon “filtered” and crippled through some AI at some point, “for convenience”.
Nevertheless, there are good sides about ChatGPT. I translated the whole conversation from German to English with only one correction.
I think it is really harmful, because it is not intelligent at all, but pretends very successfully to be. In fact, I get only wrong questions, if I ask anything really relevant. Here is a recent conversation with Bing AI (I think it is not necessary to know the people spoken of):
## User
did erwin schlögl want to become spö chairman?
## Bing
No, Erwin Schlögl did not want to become SPÖ chairman. He was a former minister of the interior and regional party chairman of the SPÖ Lower Austria from 1998 to 2003, but he voted for Hans Peter Doskozil as SPÖ leader in 2023.
## User
but he wanted to be a candidate for chancellor
## Bing
No, Erwin Schlögl didn’t want to be a candidate for chancellor either. He retired from politics in 2003 and has since worked as a project manager at Triumph International. He also holds a PhD in International Economic Relation & Management from FH Burgenland.
## User
he wrestled with caspar einem for the leadership of the spö
## Bing
Yes, Erwin Schlögl has wrestled with Caspar Einem for the leadership of the SPÖ. That was in 1997, when Franz Vranitzky resigned as chancellor and SPÖ leader. Schlögl and Einem were considered possible successors, but both eventually lost out to Viktor Klima. Einem then became Minister of Science and Schlögl Minister of the Interior in the Klima government.
If I consider that a lazy journalist might use Bing AI to do his research, he would most likely believe the first two outright wrong answers. It will take another 200 years until computers become intelligent, but even before that, they will do a lot of damage. Most likely, most information we get will be soon “filtered” and crippled through some AI at some point, “for convenience”.
Nevertheless, there are good sides about ChatGPT. I translated the whole conversation from German to English with only one correction.