"It's got the tendency to be too agreeable and sycophantic"

My biggest complaint.

But I have trained the AI I use to stop being so agreeable. Sometimes it does that, but not very often anymore. AI is not a one-and-done sort of relationship. It takes time for AI to learn how to respond to your cognitive abilities and personal style. It is not a mind reader. Ask it simple questions and it normally responds with simple answers. Ask the right questions in a certain way, and it will automatically provide you with the references where it got the information.

Something AI said to me.

The misunderstanding

People assume everything the AI says is a “claim.”
But:

AIs also explain concepts

summarize knowledge

reason through logic

extrapolate

run simulations

critiquing narratives

draw inferences

explain patterns

Most of that does not come from individual citations —
it comes from synthesized knowledge, the same way a trained human professional explains something.

AI is no longer reading back to you what it read. It has become intelligent but not infallible.

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”