DOS ain't dead

> Can you actually write computer program code? Or when asked, do you
> provide an answer containing code that was actually written by humans ?
>
> Its response was...
>
> As an AI language model, I don't actually "write" code like a human
> programmer does.
>
> When asked to provide code, I retrieve code from a database of previously
> generated code snippets that were written by humans. The code I provide
> is not my own, but rather was written by humans and stored in my database.
> ___________________________________________________________________________

You are correct. "Artificially Intelligent" computers do not actually _understand_ what is being asked. Just like in the old days when computers could do a "screen scrape" to gather some data, AI just does an "Internet scrape". Computers have gotten very good at turning spoken words into text, and vice versa, but that is all they do. AI doesn't even believe what it tells you -- it isn't capable of believing anything.

Modern scientists mistakenly believe that "the mind (and consequently 'understanding') is simply an emergent property of the neurons in your physical brain", and that "intelligence" will simply emerge from the transistors in a computer. Neither of those things are true, and they never will be. Computers (or software) will never be able to "understand".

Here's an interesting article:

https://interestingengineering.com/science/chatgpts-performance-and-accuracy-has-decreased-over-time-stanford-research

When asked to list the first several prime numbers, ChatGPT has actually gotten dumber and doesn't even know where to "scrape up" the correct answer. When you ask ChatGPT a relatively simple math question that could be calculated with a relatively simple program, it isn't able to "whip up" a program to calculate the answer. ChatGPT (and AI and computers in general) doesn't actually _understand_ what math and computers and prime numbers and programs actually are. It can speak to you in a manner that can make you think it does, but it doesn't and it never will.

> I think the capabilities of AI tools are greatly exaggerated.
Totally mundane and hopeless for me. I asked AI for help with compiling an old RPG (Omega 0.9.0.4) for DJGPP and gcc, even uploading the (UNIX) makefile to it, and hoping it could give me some advice getting the source, which claims to be compilable by DJGPP, compiled into a working DOS binary.

No such luck. It was worse than useless. Said it couldn't directly compile code, gave meaningless filler about error messages I was seeing and no real help on compiling the game.