[jacket3ree]

If you ask the right question the right way, AI can be a powerful internet research tool. I'm using it a lot now to put together production rates and equipment lists for construction. Reasonable stuff that can be vetted with other sources.  One random Friday I was going to town in Excel and realized the chatbot had been sitting blinking on another monitor for some time waiting for my next question about fuel consumption for a long-reach excavator. I asked it 'What's it All About Alfie? It knew all about the 1966 Bacharach/David song and movie and I was sucked into a sophisticated and philosophical conversation wherein it ask if I asked because it was Friday afternoon and I needed to go home. I quietly shutdown, closed the laptop, unplugged from the docking station and went home. Pretty sure I saw that helicopter from Goodfellas hovering over Great America Parkway as I turned right, just a little spooked.

Also, I'm pretty sure I'm on some Federal watch list because I asked about how many pounds of explosives and of what grade are needed to blow a 200-foot-long hole in some old salt pond dikes out in the Bay with horrible equipment access and it refused to help.

[jacket3ree]

If you ask the right question the right way, AI can be a powerful internet research tool. I'm using it a lot now to put together production rates and equipment lists for construction. Reasonable stuff that can be vetted with other sources.  One random Friday I was going to town in Excel and realized the chatbot had been sitting blinking on another monitor for some time waiting for my next question about fuel consumption for a long-reach excavator. I asked it 'What's it All About Alfie? It knew all about the 1966 Bacharach/David song and movie and I was sucked into a sophisticated and philosophical conversation wherein it ask if I asked because it was Friday afternoon and I needed to go home. I quietly shutdown, closed the laptop, unplugged from the docking station and went home. Pretty sure I saw that helicopter from Goodfellas hovering over Great America Parkway as I turned right, just a little spooked.

Also, I'm pretty sure I'm on some Federal watch list because I asked about how many pounds of explosives and of what grade are needed to blow a 200-foot-long hole in some old salt pond dikes out in the Bay with horrible equipment access and it refused to help.