One is a boss's view, looking for an AI to replace his employees someday. I think that is a dead end. It is just getting better to become a sophisticate, increasingly impressive but won't work.
One is the worker's view, looking at AI to be a powerful tool that can leverage one's productivity. I think that is looking promising.
I don't really care for the chat bot to give me accurate sources. I care about an AI that can provide likely places to look for sources and I'll build the tool chain to lookup and verify the sources.
It appears that the mean, the language and tooling, has become everything, and the end, the software or the program or the results, has been reduced to nothing.
Unless it's a general purpose programming language, being Turing complete should always be listed in the "Con" side. It literally means the effort needed to understand its complexity can be unbounded.
I agree that there is no value of saying "I don't know" in general. But sometime people would say "I don't know" as an emphasis on his "understanding" that there are something deeper than the current common understanding, and that is reasonable.
Crowd sentiment is very important (to many circumstances and understanding), so reading the 20-comment deep flame war is useful too. You just need make sure to read it from outside but not into it.
There are risky risks, and there are affordable risks. One of the risky risks -- at main job, I am also very reluctant to commit to any new projects without emphasizing that I can not guarantee result but only effort up front first. Luckily, I often get managers to acknowledge my emphases on the effort part, which somehow reduces the risk of unknown unknowns. But I also had many occasions that I succeeded to convince managers or coworkers to alter their ambition with my emphases. In other word, my job has some room for risks and my finance has some room for risk of jobs, I guess I am lucky.
Now once the risk reduced to affordable level, my curiosity often takes over and I often gets excited to explore my unknowns.
It is sad that for some people that all they see is unaffordable risks and they have suppressed and forgotten their curiosity -- the source of life's excitement.
One is the worker's view, looking at AI to be a powerful tool that can leverage one's productivity. I think that is looking promising.
I don't really care for the chat bot to give me accurate sources. I care about an AI that can provide likely places to look for sources and I'll build the tool chain to lookup and verify the sources.