Today's manmade horror: Bazingas on twitter are amazed that glorified chatbots like GPT-3 can produce readable text that is nominally about whatever topic you request. Say they just spent 20 minutes learning about physics. Say that this makes all existing forms of education obsolete. Say that teachers are no longer needed.
Directly below this someone else posted a prolonged dialogue where the GPT-3 bot calmly explained why a peregrine falcon is the worlds fastest marine mammal. When corrected it said that the sailfish is the fastest marine mammal, explaining that sailfish are warm blooded and have fur.
Bazingas think they can replace teachers (and everything else) with their half-baked machine learning systems because they're so ignorant and uneducated about anything outside their direct field of expertise that they don't actually know what any other disciplines do, or why they do what they do, or even how to evaluate when they're being fed bad knowledge.
Link for dunking.
Not impossible, but generalized intelligence that can just take a bunch of (often contradictory) information and be sensible to talk to is what I'm skeptical will be achieved before the next dark ages lol.
Pretty capable chatbots that are as accurate as a high school teacher about specific topics are essentially possible today, (like the "teach me Python" guy's example in the thread on the bird site which is probably fake anyway because that's easier). It just requires a ton of parameter definition and manual intervention, forcing users to use specific syntax that probably means a searchable ebook would've been a better use of the subject matter experts' time that you'd need to properly train it with feedback.
A lot of articles are like "Look at this amazing game changing thing I did with AI" and the amazing thing is replicating, say, a web page with a calorie calculator that provides meal plans, except that with the AI output you have to go manually check that the numbers are right because the AI is just cribbing random information that is statistically similar to the prompt.