The feeling in the media is that this is already here but I suspect that is based mainly on hype, movies/films, TV series and the like as well as a good dose of ignorance about AI. Yet clearly there are great strides being made in the world of AI apparently. Mostly this is to do with accessibility and application. The technology is improving to such an extent that it is very, very easy to use and access. But that doesn’t mean it is becoming more self aware even if it feels it when it is talking to you as a [...]

ChatGPT and Bard (and the like) are not really AI, they don’t think for themselves, they regurgitate information. They do it incredibly well, almost life like but they have no concept of what they are writing. They don’t have independent thought or motive, they simply sit there until you ask them a question. There is so much speculation that they are getting closer to Artificial General Intelligence or some sort of sentience (a sense of being alive). Yet they are very powerful but they are just guessing what the next word is in a sentence. They are very powerful tools [...]