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I tried asking it some programming questions -- I found if I asked it things that I was likely to find lots of copies of (or similar things), it did quite well.

I tried asking it some programming questions -- I found if I asked it things that I was likely to find lots of copies of (or similar things), it did quite well. As soon as I asked it something a bit more unusual, even if the program was quite small, it broke. One easy way of catching out is to ask "write X in language Y", where X isn't something most people would write in Y -- it usually got it wrong for me.

beepbooptheory 4y ago
Right, it seems so cool at first, but very quickly just feels like... google. I know its a sophisticated thing, but I really can't sustain enthusiasm for it, I don't understand how all the literal and figurative energy that goes into this is ultimately worth it, beyond being like "huh, cool" for a few minutes. It is immediately apparent that there isn't, like, synthetic judgements happening in the Kantian sense or whatever, just parsed html with maybe wrong answers and a very good ability to make it feel conversational. Ill stick to man pages and blogs for now. I like learning!