I was reading my son's newest post today. I did not understand a word of it. Yet, I saw what a new Google'esk program could do in answering human questions.

My son is brilliant and has always been. He was my calculator when I wanted to know what 20% off of an item was. This was way back before cell phones. No one but my Father in Law carried a calculator around in their pocket. Plus, I had birthed a living calculator, so why not help him practice. This is not asking a lot from a three-year-old.

My son loved numbers. Trying on mittens in a store full of people was a different story. I was told once that I was a lousy parent making my child try on mittens. I told the wonderful lady who said this to me that if he has no mittens when it's minus 15F outside because you didn't want to hear him cry. I would make sure I called her to pay for all the doctor's bills when his hands froze. She left after that.

After all, he was hot and didn't care to stick his hand in an even hotter mitten. This I understood. The lady must never have had a kid that lost mittens at the rate mine did.

Where did that rant come from? Lordy, Lordy!

While I didn't understand his questions he asked the AI, I did think of a few of my own questions I wanted to see if it could answer.

After handing over the blood of my firstborn child, the newest invention let me log in. Once you click through all the stuff no one reads, the page becomes a significant blank black page. I thought I would see other people's questions, but nope, I was all alone with my blank black page looking at me.

I decided to ask a straightforward question. A Mom question. So I did. Below is the answer. I found it fascinating.

I then decided to ask a few more questions about things I knew and see how the AI answered. Could I understand the answers? Would I see pretty photos? Yes, and No. See below.

No pretty Google photos to look at. Okay, I could live with that if I learned something without having to wade through ads for bras and winter boots.

Pro's

With the little I have messed around in the program, it is worth your time. If you have no one to ask questions to, you now have a faster way to get answers if you remember to use it. Like Google, the more you use it, the more you learn how to ask questions to get information on what you want to know.

Con's

If every answer starts with I am an AI, chances are your mind will tell you what you are reading is false even if it is not. It's hard and becoming harder to think computers will soon overtake us. Learning to trust in an AI, for most, takes work.

Google doesn't throw in your face it's just guessing what you want to read. It wants you to spend as much time on its site looking for answers and watching advertisements.

I say give it a go! It can answer simple questions like mine or more complete questions like my son was asking. You could spend a lot of time there asking questions!

Here is the link: https://chat.openai.com/