@petealexharris@mastodon.scot @futurebird@sauropods.win Well, no, of course not. Because for that, after all, you need an actual intellect. A mind. The machine can't tell if something is good or even makes sense. It just can sort data by context, which, technologically speaking, still is amazing and has lots of useful applications (even in creative work) but it's not enough to create something on its own that is reliably useful or good in the same way a mind could come up with.
AI won't replace artists and writers anytime soon. Which doesn't mean idiot bosses who don't see extra fingers or incoherent writing won't use it to kill their jobs, though.
It's already bad with english but infinitely worse with german, let me tell you. Every sentence this thing translates (because it does all generation in english and translates back and forth) is stilted and artificial at best, completely nonsensical at worst.
And it completely falls apart when confronted with dialects. Nevertheless german television is killing off subtitling jobs to replace them with this tech that barely speaks english, nevermind low german or bavarian. Madness. And lots of magical thinking. If nothing else, this will be funny once they realize it doesn't work.
While truly useful in many ways, this tech is getting oversold in a way that can only be described as lunacy, complete and utter madness. Because they know it can't deliver the sales they promised their investors, so they double and triple down promising real magic their tech absolutely can't do. This could all have been avoided with a little dose of realism instead of AI-generated hallucinations. Never drink your own Kool-Aid, I guess.