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Artificial Intelligence in a land of whimsey and wrong routes

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Costa del Silencio is a small coastal resort town located in the municipality of Arona, in the south of Tenerife , one of the Canary Islands (Spain). It's a quieter, more laid-back destination compared to its bustling neighbors like Los Cristianos or Playa de las Américas. Ok, I wondered what ChatGBT would have to say and I think you can say that the lack of spelling mistakes or reviews of car parks shows it for what it is.  Obviously it is a new technology. History does not leave us ‘Newcomen’s Steam Engine - rubbish, only good for moving water 2 stars.’ I had a student who got it to write homework. It was ok except it didn’t use examples from the course to back up the arguments - that and he barely wrote a word before - gave the game away.  A talk I attended reckoned even with limited and accurate data sources, it was not up to marking exams yet.  A new generation of computers was needed to make it effective.  Please feel free to quote this one way or another in f...