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1. You could literally just input stack overflows data and it would be able to answer the same questions. ChatGPT is running on years old data and isn't even co

1. You could literally just input stack overflows data and it would be able to answer the same questions. ChatGPT is running on years old data and isn't even connected to the internet right now, the future will be way better. 2. Again Google is also wrong in subtle and even not so subtle ways. I've seen highlighted answers that are just dead wrong thanks to the SEO takeover. In Google clicks = right answer very often. It's essentially a popularity contest and try finding anything obscure on Google. 3. It's not going to write entire programs but it's amazing for simple one module tasks, but sometimes that is all you need to build into something bigger. You can even ask it tell you how to program and continually ask 'and how do I do that' and find the answer (similar to google which you'll be also be lucky to find anything useful on your first search or first link). It's more like an instructor than Google because with Google you don't know what you don't know. Most programmers are actually just good at searching for answers and this is a short cut. You can get 10 ways to program the same thing if you ask the question slightly differently. Just like I was talking about art, you get 100 solutions if you want and just choose the best. It's not replacing programmers but it sure as hell makes the job easier.

nwienert 4y ago
I do get that, but to me it all sums up to “much worse than Google in the best case”. StackOverflow is almost never wrong at the top answer and again has many coherent responses for many use cases with contextual help, where GPT is often subtly incorrect with no real context (precision struggles). The whole iterative thing is maybe good for learning tools. Just not seeing a revolution, yet. The struggles for SEO are less than those for GPT, both have to deal with spam and weird data, but GPT you’re also out of date, don’t have much explainability, and basically trust one giant black box of bias that requires higher input-foo whereas Google is also a giant black box of bias but at least you land at SO or Reddit or something where things are concrete and easy to understand. Again, if this was some iPhone level revolution I’d have no comparable. It’d be way better at something clearly. But it’s not even clearly equal to any of the examples, and imo worse than basically all except “draw me a dragon in a tutu”, caricature artists should be worried! On second thought, caricature artists are pretty safe since much of that experience is the whole human drawing you thing and also the generative models don’t really do caricature well as of now.

nwienert 4y ago

I do get that, but to me it all sums up to “much worse than Google in the best case”. StackOverflow is almost never wrong at the top answer and again has many coherent responses for many use cases with contextual help, where GPT is often subtly incorrect with no real context (precision struggles). The whole iterative thing is maybe good for learning tools. Just not seeing a revolution, yet. The struggles for SEO are less than those for GPT, both have to deal with spam and weird data, but GPT you’re also out of date, don’t have much explainability, and basically trust one giant black box of bias that requires higher input-foo whereas Google is also a giant black box of bias but at least you land at SO or Reddit or something where things are concrete and easy to understand. Again, if this was some iPhone level revolution I’d have no comparable. It’d be way better at something clearly. But it’s not even clearly equal to any of the examples, and imo worse than basically all except “draw me a dragon in a tutu”, caricature artists should be worried! On second thought, caricature artists are pretty safe since much of that experience is the whole human drawing you thing and also the generative models don’t really do caricature well as of now.