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I've been a bit disappointed by the AI. I'll admit going in with low expectations (I know about the whole AI summer/winter cycle) and I was blown away that ChatGPT could play Jeopardy! with just a prompt since I remember being blown away by Watson and AlphaGo. But then I had it help me write a letter, and by the time I got it to do anything useful, I basically had to write an outline for it, and then I realized I had already done the hard part. I asked it to write some boilerplate code for an interface to the Slack API in Python, but it used a deprecated API, and it assumed I had a valid token. Turns out Slack has lots of different kinds of tokens and I was using the wrong one, and the AI couldn't help me figure that out. After that, I remembered the story about pain point for radiologists. They don't need help diagnosing cancer, they need help with their internet connectivity.


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