Comment by nashashmi

A lot of the information in this is skewed towards alarmist, rather than rational. I have been playing with Bing AI. And I have yet to encounter any of the sassy responses others have famously gotten. However, I’ve been trying to see its limits and it seems it has two primary capabilities. The first is retrieving information from the web and the second is generating content that reflects the information it got. I asked Bing AI what this second capability is called and it responded it is generative AI which means it can generate either text, graphics or sound.

I am still examining its ability to connect various pieces of information with a kind of analysis that does not have a mathematical relationship. I am not seeing any ability to do so. It seems to be only outputting information that it finds on the web. And then look up the term for each word that it finds with a dictionary and other search results. And from there creates a mathematical graph model between the relationship of words.

As for the generative AI part, it seems it can adopt various styles of responses and language art, plus give the response in a particular structure and sequence of thought.

I think it is a very clever and complex hack to mimic human language.