In Newsweek
From my article in the June 9, 2023, issue of Newsweek
The explosion of progress in artificial intelligence in recent months has surprised even the scientists and engineers who specialize in applying AI to real-world tasks. “A few years ago I never would have imagined we’d advance this far this soon,” says Zhe Jiang, a University of Florida researcher who studies industrial applications of AI.
The recent excitement—and concerns—over this technology were ignited when several major companies released stunningly capable new programs in swift succession, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s Bard. These “large language models” are programmed to pore over trillions of words of text from the internet to learn how to produce very human-like text and images on their own in response to plain English questions and requests….Read more
David H. Freedman 
While ai may function well for “common knowledge” based associations, they typically do not exercise any judgement and appear unable to determine truth. They routinely repeat what are simply advertisement based statements. In other words they are like the average human, rather dumb and incapable of rational thought.
I agree. But think how much the average human can do, good and bad. Now we’re turning computers loose to do all that.