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Now we're delving into pointless-definition-arguing territory. Let's keep it on-topic: the bottom-line is that AI-generated replies are very often plain wrong; if they are correct, they're pretty generic (so they don't really help in the discussion) and they just sound all the same. They are quite unnatural and unpleasant to read (often also too long).
Since we do have experts on almost any topic, I'd just much rather have an opinion by someone like that who spent years on the subject (even though jotting down the reply takes them just a few seconds - you
could count their experience as 'effort'). Instead of getting a semi-correct, not on-point (a bit vague) reply based on an outdated Google snapshot. If you think about it, it's also clear, why: most questions don't have a clear 0 or 1 answer. Therefore, search engines will deliver contradicting results. The AI has no experience in the subject, so it cannot judge which web entries are 'more right' than others; just because one opinion is posted more frequently online, doesn't make it right, for instance. But the AI doesn't know that. Or at least, it cannot judge which answer is true.
Most of the good questions and following discussions on here are about things you can't just quickly web search and find the perfect answer. I think that's the reason why a machine is not well suited for replying in such a forum. If we want 'machine answers', we just search online. The machine simply cannot have a real opinion on a question like
I found a paper wallet on a beach ... seriously, because it has no record of something like this in its web snapshot, it has no creative thinking ability or morals. Even though it is called 'AI', it is
not actually intelligent.
One example of a 'machine' I really appreciate for very specific 'questions' is
Wolfram|Alpha. It is not an 'all-knowing AI', but it just takes natural language input, tells you how it interpreted / structured it and delivers actually correct results based on that structured query. If it cannot do that, it just tells you rather than giving an incorrect answer.