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It's been so good I've been using it nonstop for about two days now; finally coming up for air, because it's SO GOOD, there's no way it could last for free. I a

by kudut 4y ago

It's been so good I've been using it nonstop for about two days now; finally coming up for air, because it's SO GOOD, there's no way it could last for free. I accomplished two projects I languished with for years so I'm very very happy. Lost some Facebook friends from posting EVERY RESULT but that's their problem. I had a lot of fun.

philomath_mn 4y ago
Same here! I've been meaning to do some basic analytics by scraping my Goodreads and ChatGPT was helpful enough to push through the annoying parts (way better at generating things whole-cloth than CoPilot) I'd actually pay a decent amount if they turned on monetization.
- xur17 4y ago
  > I'd actually pay a decent amount if they turned on monetization. I agree. That said, I think the optimal move would be for them to leave it free (or at least provide a free option) to get people hooked on it. If pricing for this was the same as the rest of openai, I would never have tried it. And I really really hope they do not go the "monetization via ads" route.
aquova 4y ago
While I was initially very impressed with ChatGPT, I found that in lesser known programming languages, it returned more incorrect answers than correct ones. I've been doing AoC in Nim this year, and so I tried asking it some Nim questions, to which it confidently completely made up nearly everything. "Does Nim have a REPL interface?" Yes, it told me, and even gave the command to use it (just `nim`). Except Nim doesn't have one, and the command simply prints out instructions on how to use the compiler. "Can you do list comprehension, ala Python?" Yes, and again provided examples, despite Nim not supporting the feature. Even asking it something it something the language does support, such as an example of thread-safe parallel code, had it use functions that don't exist. It was quite odd. I've had friends say that it worked so well that it taught them functions in their languages they didn't know existed, but I was left a bit disappointed.

by kudut 4y ago

philomath_mn 4y ago

Same here! I've been meaning to do some basic analytics by scraping my Goodreads and ChatGPT was helpful enough to push through the annoying parts (way better at generating things whole-cloth than CoPilot) I'd actually pay a decent amount if they turned on monetization.

xur17 4y ago
> I'd actually pay a decent amount if they turned on monetization. I agree. That said, I think the optimal move would be for them to leave it free (or at least provide a free option) to get people hooked on it. If pricing for this was the same as the rest of openai, I would never have tried it. And I really really hope they do not go the "monetization via ads" route.

aquova 4y ago

While I was initially very impressed with ChatGPT, I found that in lesser known programming languages, it returned more incorrect answers than correct ones. I've been doing AoC in Nim this year, and so I tried asking it some Nim questions, to which it confidently completely made up nearly everything. "Does Nim have a REPL interface?" Yes, it told me, and even gave the command to use it (just `nim`). Except Nim doesn't have one, and the command simply prints out instructions on how to use the compiler. "Can you do list comprehension, ala Python?" Yes, and again provided examples, despite Nim not supporting the feature. Even asking it something it something the language does support, such as an example of thread-safe parallel code, had it use functions that don't exist. It was quite odd. I've had friends say that it worked so well that it taught them functions in their languages they didn't know existed, but I was left a bit disappointed.