We examine it and test it quite a bit at work. There are things it can do quite well, and things at which it fails miserably. AI hallucinations are very real and beyond the shit it flat out makes up, it perceives almost everything it reads online as being true which creates a whole new set of problems.
Like any technology, there is a massive “garbage in, garbage out” problem with AI. How it is trained, and by whom, can mean the difference between success and failure in much of what it does. There are some jobs that AI will make obsolete (if I was getting a computer programming degree right now I’d switch majors). It will never be better than a good lawyer, but it could absolutely replace most paralegals.
I recently received a bunch of emails telling me I should use ChatGPT because it scores a 165 on the LSATs. I laughed since I scored considerably higher than that.
It’s a tool and, like any tool, it has its place. But, it is far from being a real game changer for most high level business applications