It is not smart, it doesn't understand anything, it's just a random word generator and this insanity has to stop.
How come people are so fucking dumb they can't accept the idea of animals being sentient, but then they get thrown a few words at their face and they suddenly decide to attribute sentience to the random word generator?
What a stupid world we live in.
Sure, and the existence of randomness itself is debatable. "Unreliable as fuck" could be a better description.
"AI" as in machine learning to do, whatever, audio transcription or translation, recognising bird noises and whatnot, sure. It's a tool, it's not very useful yet but it could be in specific contexts. That kind basically stopped being developed a few years ago.
Now generative "AI" and LLMs? Those are garbage. Anyone with a different opinion is deluded. Destroying the world and humanity for the sake of mass-producing trash slop? There is no "time and place" for that other than never and nowhere.
And like, for fuck's sake, anyone with a brain knows that when all the billionaires suddenly bet on something, it's not something good.
We went through the blockchain, through NFTs, now it keeps on getting worse and worse and yet people must be becoming dumber and dumber for falling for it again and again.