i actually think that the term "artificial intelligence" should be disassociated from the technology being marketed by it, as it is not intelligence in any way, it's rote memorization. it's not ai in any way, it's a database query.

i took courses on this at university. the term is entrenched, but it's a misnomer, and there should be an aggressive attempt to correct it. call it what it is - a database search. it's all it is. you're just querying a database for a search term, with a more user friendly interface than an oracle query. at it's backend, it's just oracle. it's just access.

if people were describing this correctly, it would eliminate a lot of the ignorance around it. no, chatgpt is not going to conquer the universe, unless somebody asks it to, and then it's a tool being used by an insane human, and you blame the human not the tool. we could get better legislation and have a better discourse if we better understood what it actually is.

it's just a search engine. it's not some sentient computer program that acts independently or makes it's own decisions.