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I've increasingly found it irritating to need to google things when I can just ask chatGPT. I suspect some additional training has occurred since the initial re

by lumost 4y ago

I've increasingly found it irritating to need to google things when I can just ask chatGPT. I suspect some additional training has occurred since the initial release as I'm seeing fewer factual errors day by day. Alternately, I may just be getting better at asking ChatGPT for things in ways more likely to produce a factual answer.

fourier456 4y ago
How does your strategy work? Perhaps distinguish it from naive approaches.
- lumost 4y ago
  Example: Is the pytorch convention that one or zero should be used for mask values you do not want to attend to? ChatGPT will give a correct answer and sample implementation, if the implementation is broken or uses a non resistant api then I just tell it what's wrong and ask it if it knows better. Getting to the correct answer has proven vastly more efficient than wading through google results. Alternatively if I'm asking a conceptual question, chatgpt will give a few directions, I can ask to dive deeper on one, and then I ask it for a citation or google search terms to confirm the result. If I fail to confirm, I'll tell it that and see if it corrects. If I have some code to write - and I'm feeling lazy. I can just tell chatgpt my requirements and ask it if it has any questions. I keep clarifying the questions until it says it can write the code ( which it usually does with 95% correctness for non trivial asks) - if you tell it where it made mistakes it will usually correct, and if not porting the code to a working state just means changing a few function calls which chat gpt hallucinated into existence.
culi 4y ago
How do you have ChatGPT at hand so easily? Is there an app or something? Or just a bookmark you always have at hand? I'm having trouble imaging how this could become ergonomic to use. Being able to CMD + T (new tab) and type a question right away just feels so easy and second nature at this point that I have trouble imagining replacing it
- gamegoblin 4y ago
  I keep it open in my first tab all the time now. Ctrl+1 to get there in the browser now.
- sitkack 4y ago
  ChatGPT is pinned to tab 1, ⌘+1
yodsanklai 4y ago
I really don't see how ChatGPT can beat Google in any way. Example: Number of atoms in Universe 1. I get an answer from ChatGPT which comes more slowly than the Google one. Which I'm not sure is correct. I don't get any reference. 2. Google: I get the answer, plus links to various sources that contains also much more explanation in case I'm interested. > I'm seeing fewer factual errors day by day. How do you know there's a factual error, unless you also ask Google or know the answer before hand?
- lumost 4y ago
  It's easy to confirm a fact, it's much harder to find a fact. Just ask chatgpt for a reference or what you should search for. This latter trick may not work after chatgpt becomes GA as blogspam outputs of chstgpt become common.

by lumost 4y ago

fourier456 4y ago

How does your strategy work? Perhaps distinguish it from naive approaches.

lumost 4y ago
Example: Is the pytorch convention that one or zero should be used for mask values you do not want to attend to? ChatGPT will give a correct answer and sample implementation, if the implementation is broken or uses a non resistant api then I just tell it what's wrong and ask it if it knows better. Getting to the correct answer has proven vastly more efficient than wading through google results. Alternatively if I'm asking a conceptual question, chatgpt will give a few directions, I can ask to dive deeper on one, and then I ask it for a citation or google search terms to confirm the result. If I fail to confirm, I'll tell it that and see if it corrects. If I have some code to write - and I'm feeling lazy. I can just tell chatgpt my requirements and ask it if it has any questions. I keep clarifying the questions until it says it can write the code ( which it usually does with 95% correctness for non trivial asks) - if you tell it where it made mistakes it will usually correct, and if not porting the code to a working state just means changing a few function calls which chat gpt hallucinated into existence.

culi 4y ago

How do you have ChatGPT at hand so easily? Is there an app or something? Or just a bookmark you always have at hand? I'm having trouble imaging how this could become ergonomic to use. Being able to CMD + T (new tab) and type a question right away just feels so easy and second nature at this point that I have trouble imagining replacing it

gamegoblin 4y ago
I keep it open in my first tab all the time now. Ctrl+1 to get there in the browser now.
sitkack 4y ago
ChatGPT is pinned to tab 1, ⌘+1

yodsanklai 4y ago

I really don't see how ChatGPT can beat Google in any way. Example: Number of atoms in Universe 1. I get an answer from ChatGPT which comes more slowly than the Google one. Which I'm not sure is correct. I don't get any reference. 2. Google: I get the answer, plus links to various sources that contains also much more explanation in case I'm interested. > I'm seeing fewer factual errors day by day. How do you know there's a factual error, unless you also ask Google or know the answer before hand?

lumost 4y ago
It's easy to confirm a fact, it's much harder to find a fact. Just ask chatgpt for a reference or what you should search for. This latter trick may not work after chatgpt becomes GA as blogspam outputs of chstgpt become common.