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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9771996" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>That's where the disconnect comes from. I very well knew that Paul Deschanel is the 10th president of the Third Republic. But I might have a lapse of memory and asking ChatGPT will give me a quicker result than going to the library or checking websites for that information. Do I need to check it? No, it is just recalling common knowledge, the recollection is enough. For more specific knowledge, it might be that I  don't know exactly when he fell from his train ; asking ChatGTP for the answer with sources gives me the Wikipedia link and the correct answer, much quicker than googling for it and reading the whole article. Research time + checking time is quicker than research time without using this tool. It saved me a few seconds to a minute -- not great, but still.. Of course, you're free to think I am untrustworthy and incompent because my experience differs from yours. Such wouldn't be true or false, it would be a judgement of value of yours. What would be pertinent for assessing the usefulness of AI isn't what we "feel" about things but conducting extensive analysis on productivity gains. Anecdotes like the one in the original post or mine have no bearing on the answer. Pretending they have by virtue of generalization will be met with pushback. Not from people who might think otherwise, but also by people who value logical thinking.</p></blockquote><p></p>