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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.
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Not my experience at all. What it spits out is almost always pretty damn close to the goal, for shell one liners it's easily a better programmer than myself. Sometimes it might invent API calls that don't exist, but so would any human that isn't allowed to look up the documentation or compile the code for testing. I don't think I have ever seen ChatGPT spit out anything remotely close to "hot garbage". The situations where it fails the worst are the situations where there isn't any good solution to begin with.
And it will often be able to correct them when you tell it what's wrong or when you provide it with compiler error messages.