Barry O'Sullivan: ChatGPT is not your friend

Taking advice from something that can't differentiate truth from fiction and tells you what you want to hear isn't the wisest choice, writes Barry O’Sullivan

Much like Dan, who sits at the bar in Killinascully dispensing wisdom, ChatGPT merely tells you what you want to hear. It, too, has no problem embellishing the details. 'Jimmy' (Jack Walsh), 'Willie Power' (Pat Shortt), and 'Timmy' (Joe Rooney) in Killinaskully.

Artificial intelligence is a broad umbrella term for computer systems that perform tasks that we think of as requiring human intelligence – and, despite all the fuss about it lately, we’ve been using it for decades. 

There are AI systems that learn, that can process natural language, that can play complex games and be strategic, that can interpret visual scenes and images, and so on. We use AI systems every day.