2. While waiting for Sherline to respond to my request for technical assistance with my shorted out spindle motor, I decided to see if I could use AI to 3D print the refractor lens cell.
CoPilot understood my prompt and seemed to have produced a Python script that a FreeCAD add on can convert it to a Free CAD object
Okay. I asked CoPilot to help me install the add on. The first instructions failed. So it walked me through installing git and eventually I got the add on installed in FreeCAD.
After multiple false starts (many commands do not work as CoPilot thought and to be fair, they were logical assumptions). I was able to get objects created. Continued attempts to get an isometric view of the parts continued failing. I may yet get this operational using CoPilot but it is a lot of "this is the error, what next?" I suspect with enough hours, I will get something useful out of it.
Like court decisions and briefs filed by lawyers, AI is so often wrong that it is at best a useful tool. It is not a replacement for a human. I asked it if it was learning from its misstatements about how FreeCAD worked. The answer was that while it used its mistakes to guide me toward a real solution, it does not feed that knowledge back into its knowledge based. This seems like a severe deficiency
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