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..except they can't

It's blatantly obvious to see if you work with something you personally have a lot of expertise in. They're effectively advanced search engines. Useful sure.. but they're not anywhere close to "making decisions"



In what sense? It seems entirely possible to have a computer program that calls ChatGPT with questions on what stocks to buy, and for that computer program to then trade stock based on the results, entirely autonomously. No matter your opinion of the idea itself, why wouldn't that count as "making decisions"?


Are you buying stocks based on ChatGPT's advice?


Not especially. The computer program does all the work. It's the one that hits ChatGPT for a list of trades, and then the computer program hits the brokerage's API to execute the trades. I made the decision to set the program up in the first place, and the trades are happening on an account that has my name on it, sure, but as I'm not nit-picking each individual trade that gets made and it runs autonomously without a human in the loop, it seems fair to claim that ChatGPT is making decisions on what to buy on my behalf, even though I do have veto authority over the program and ChatGPT, and can stop it at any time.


My point was on the quality and reliability of the decisions

An RNG can do what you're describing


An RNG can "make a decision" lol.




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