[RoosterRedux]

Good question.

Do you program? If so, ask ChatGPT to write a simple Python routine for you.

I use Excel to analyze stock performances. The other day I was wondering which 5 stocks in the NASDAQ 100 (if combined into a single portfolio) would produce the highest return over the last 5 years. I wanted a routine in VBA--Visual Basics for Applications--that would allow the number of years to be a variable.

I have access to all the NASDAQ 100 historic stock prices (free to the public at the NASDAQ site).

It took me several tries to get the question right (questions are called "prompts"), but as I kept working at it, the chatbot produced better and better programs. After a while (about 25 minutes), it gave me an equation/formula that worked like a charm.

This is one way AI is useful. From this you can see the potential.

[JoSixChip]

After a while (about 25 minutes), it gave me an equation/formula that worked like a charm.

Don't you see? You actually wrote the program yourself in the form of the question. In other words, the question was the programing language. AI is not capable of independent thought, it requires "prompts" or instructions. It is not a real consciousness and never will be.