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Some of the things GPT3 can achieve are very impressive, but once you work you work with it a little bit, you definitely feel that it just regurgitates the mass
by hobofan 4y ago
Some of the things GPT3 can achieve are very impressive, but once you work you work with it a little bit, you definitely feel that it just regurgitates the masses of text it has been trained on and tries to piece it together in the most cohesive ways. And for production usage, it (and similar models) have huge problems with halucination where it will confidently spit out "facts" that are just plain wrong.
- elondaits 4y agoThat’s what many people do as well, I feel. Not joking. That aside, copilot works well as a proactive search tool for idioms, templates, and boilerplate. It can also do things like build the invocation of a CLI tool, with arguments, from a comment line. To me, if nothing more, is the next step in the use of reference. I started with man, .hlp files and books… then progressively replaced them with Google because it was faster even if more noisy… now I use copilot first.