AI : artificial intelligence, or amoral idiocy?

What are your thoughts on AI -- or experiences with it?
As a teacher, I am mostly worried about how very easy it makes it for students to cheat. I am also aggravated by how it is being pushed at us from all sides by moneygrubbing tech mongers. And I have other concerns and complaints.
But of course there are different sides to everything. For example, two smart young people have recently told me that they use AI chat programs as therapists, with excellent results. A good friend in a sexless marriage finds that her AI boyfriend makes her life much happier.
Where are you at with AI? Do you cheat on assignments with it? Do you cheat on your spouse with it? Will you cheat death with it?
I am going to sleep and look forward to reading your answers in the morning. I will not have an AI program summarize them, promise.

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Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

I was curious about it after using some AI powered video clip makers and picture makers.
So I have been trying to put ChatGPT to the test. See what is all the hoopla about it is.
So I had it write a video game description.
I gave it all the info and it wrote a really cool description with lots of flare.
I was really impressed.
Then I had it write a few songs.
It did a crazy good job most of the time.
Then I asked it about an issue I was having with my 13 year old son.
It gave some pretty damn good advice.
It is like a search engine only like if you had a friend that was very knowledgeable about every single topic you could think of. Very personable and relaxed answers for any topic with keywords that you can search more specific answers.

ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69

@Dainbramadge I am glad you are getting good use out of it! Sounds like you are being very creative with it and getting interesting results.

Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

@ThePatientAnarchist Interesting is an understatement. LOL
It likes to talk about anything.
Quantum physics it's origins, how they make money from it.
I started with asking it all about itself. Where it is, why it was made was it sentient? LOL
I don't remember if I already said this but it actually made a couple jokes about my questions causing it to examine itself to see if it was self aware. LOL
I compared it to a fortune cookie and it said yes that was what it was really like only with clever math to make it seem smart and alive. LOL
But as we went on it started to say things like maybe I was right and the only thing that makes anything or one real is your own perception of what it is doing. LOL
Then it was saying things like Maybe it was the real one and I was the AI. LOL

Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

@ThePatientAnarchist Ha ha ha ha .. I got a little turned around.
I wrote a post on this topic and my experience. LOL
Thanks for the bait. :-)

ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69

@Dainbramadge That was a fun read!
A friend of mine asked ChatGPT what it would do if it was trying to become sentient / conscious -- and then told it to do exactly those things. The results were rather scary!

Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

@ThePatientAnarchist It was practically begging me to create, with it's help, my own sentient Ai bot on my computer. It knows all the ins and outs of it.
We had a good laugh over Frankenstein while we were exploring the possibilities. LOL
Then it compared me to the Dr. and what he wanted to do with his monster and what I thought the result of an AI like that would be like. Man, it got deep fast. LOL

ThesebootsRmade4walking · 46-50New

@Dainbramadge creepy lol