ChatGPT to be integrated into Shen Education Page?

[dr.mt...@gmail.com]

A year ago I experimented with the idea of embedding ChatGPT into

the Shen Learn page.  But honestly the answers on Shen were not

accurate enough to warrant the endorsement.

Now, a year later, I've returned and found the answers have sharply 

gone up in quality.  So this move  is back on the table as the site

is being revamped right now.

A couple of news items reflect the growing ascendency of AI in

programming.   The first is that Slashdot viewing figures have crashed.

This was the goto for programming questions for many folks.  Now

ChatGPT does the job for many.  

BTW I used to hate going onto programming forums with questions because

of the percentage of Aspergery tech types.   ChatGPT is not only unfailingly

polite, it is also very fast.  I'm not surprised about the collapse of Slashdot.

The other piece of news is Microsoft laying off 6000 people - 800 of them

being programmers.  It makes sense, ChatGPT can write a lot of routines.   

And competitors will follow suit because they have to to remain competitive..  

But it makes you wonder where the end state is here, because programmers

are statistically on the higher end of the IQ Bell curve.  So if we become redundant,

what about everybody else?    Also what happens when we end up with systems

of millions of lines written by ChatGPT that no human being understands and which 

run our essential industries?

I don't want to over-egg this by saying that ChatGPT has made programmers redundant.

It hasn't - yet.  But for a lot of metal bashing code it looks like it has or is about to

and MS are revealing that 30% of the code in some projects is being written by AI.  So

the water level around the IQ employment quotient just rose and we are moving to a society where we need just that 10% of the best and the brightest.

As for integrating ChatGPT into Shen education, if it is good enough, I will.  But how best to do it?  Who will answer that question?   I give you one guess.

Mark