# Future of General Questions in the AI age

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-of-general-questions-in-the-ai-age/1020443>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [July 3, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-of-general-questions-in-the-ai-age/1020443 "2025-07-03T14:05:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 24

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-of-general-questions-in-the-ai-age/1020443/24 "2025-07-03T22:13:52Z")

</div>

> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
>
> > [@Mijin](#):
> >
> > ISTM that it’s already the case that some questions in GQ could be answered well by AI. I am not criticizing anyone for starting such threads just wondered how do you guys see it going forwards?
> 
> If you don’t mind getting answers that are [incorrect, counterfactual, or fundamentally baseless.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperloop-pie-in-the-sky-or-is-it-time/666116/305)

There’s a problem with absolutist positions like “LLMs just parrot gibberish” (your statement from another thread) because such observations focus on some narrow fault(s) that may or may not even exist any longer, are not necessarily indicative of any intrinsic problems with the technology, and miss the big picture of AI’s broad utility. Of course there’s also the danger of being an overly optimistic evangelist, like many AI researchers were in the 60s. But we’re in an entirely new era now, and I think it’s the naysayers who will be proven wrong.

Here’s an example where I’d welcome your criticism of an LLM response and how this comports with your position of generative AI being useless. A knowledgeable poster on this board, who I believe is a professor of computer science, in a discussion about AI and specifically about its level of confidence, wrote **[a fairly detailed analysis about the inherent weaknesses of LLMs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-level-of-confidence/1017717/72)**. Given the subject matter, I thought there would be a whimsical irony in having ChatGPT itself provide a response.

That response is in the next post. I have some comments I could make about it but I’ll ask you first if you consider this a useful critique, or “gibberish”.

I have lots of other examples I could give you.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/future-of-general-questions-in-the-ai-age/1020443)._