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>>you end up earning more, or working way less. Or you're just treading water. Not everyone gains some super power productivity or an excess of free time when

>>you end up earning more, or working way less. Or you're just treading water. Not everyone gains some super power productivity or an excess of free time when utilizing tools... Some people just being able to actually scrape by BECAUSE of said tools.

danuker 4y ago
Indeed. People in developing countries might learn what the public school system should have taught them, with a free private tutor that is ChatGPT or similar.
- albert180 4y ago
  ChatGPT can't even reliably tell how many times a letter is in a word. I doubt it will be a reliable tutor
  - kolinko 4y ago
    When I tested it on subjects I knew, it gave better answers than teachers in my high school (Poland, but I guess it might be similar elsewhere in the West) Also, a friend physicist tested ChatGPT on the basics of quantum physics and he was surprised at how much it knew. IMHO the chat is at a level of 1st year university student - of any subject available. The only issue being that it always sounds super confident, even if it's wrong.
  - rmbyrro 4y ago
    The ability to tell letter occurrence in a word is not a good measure for the quality of a large language model.
  - chiefalchemist 4y ago
    Anecdotally, it's less reliable when it comes to verifiable fact; but highly useful for brainstorming and sussing out creative solution. Your results may vary.
  - danuker 4y ago
    The public school system in my country still teaches that the tongue has areas sensitive to specific tastes.
  - alpaca128 4y ago
    If a tutor tried to teach how to count letters instead of a useful skill I'd fire them. Natural language is ambiguous and ChatGPT can handle that pretty well, if you want to count letters use Python or something.
  - xp84 4y ago
    That, and the thousands of numbskulls who waste their time trying to get ChatGPT to do math problems that a $1 calculator (or worst case, free Google Sheets) could do, is the most pointless waste of computing power, and I say this as someone who remembers Flash ads. If you really are staring at strings and wanting those letters counted, you can easily ask it to write you a Python, JS, Ruby program that will do so, and in my experience for a task like that it will NAIL that task perfectly 100% of the time, and can even explain how it works to boot!

danuker 4y ago

Indeed. People in developing countries might learn what the public school system should have taught them, with a free private tutor that is ChatGPT or similar.

albert180 4y ago
ChatGPT can't even reliably tell how many times a letter is in a word. I doubt it will be a reliable tutor
- kolinko 4y ago
  When I tested it on subjects I knew, it gave better answers than teachers in my high school (Poland, but I guess it might be similar elsewhere in the West) Also, a friend physicist tested ChatGPT on the basics of quantum physics and he was surprised at how much it knew. IMHO the chat is at a level of 1st year university student - of any subject available. The only issue being that it always sounds super confident, even if it's wrong.
- rmbyrro 4y ago
  The ability to tell letter occurrence in a word is not a good measure for the quality of a large language model.
- chiefalchemist 4y ago
  Anecdotally, it's less reliable when it comes to verifiable fact; but highly useful for brainstorming and sussing out creative solution. Your results may vary.
- danuker 4y ago
  The public school system in my country still teaches that the tongue has areas sensitive to specific tastes.
- alpaca128 4y ago
  If a tutor tried to teach how to count letters instead of a useful skill I'd fire them. Natural language is ambiguous and ChatGPT can handle that pretty well, if you want to count letters use Python or something.
- xp84 4y ago
  That, and the thousands of numbskulls who waste their time trying to get ChatGPT to do math problems that a $1 calculator (or worst case, free Google Sheets) could do, is the most pointless waste of computing power, and I say this as someone who remembers Flash ads. If you really are staring at strings and wanting those letters counted, you can easily ask it to write you a Python, JS, Ruby program that will do so, and in my experience for a task like that it will NAIL that task perfectly 100% of the time, and can even explain how it works to boot!