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Dunno if I agree about the "toy" part. I was learning a new programming language the other day and ChatGPT was able to provide much more focused/helpful respon

Dunno if I agree about the "toy" part. I was learning a new programming language the other day and ChatGPT was able to provide much more focused/helpful responses than Google. Specifically about details of Rust borrow checker, certain syntax etc It's true that it can give false info at times, but everything it fed to me was true at the time. Time to meaningful response much faster than Google for certain categories of questions... It may not be a step towards AGI at all, but it's certainly useful

moffkalast 4y ago
It's certainly at least a step to far better knowledge aggregation, with SEO rapidly ruining search engines as they currently exist.
- danuker 4y ago
  I think the filler SEO pages rubbed onto ChatGPT giving it a sort of roundabout filler tone.
aatd86 4y ago
Agreed. Same experience. It can often ouput some falsities but when one knows what they are doing... It can accelerate coding quite a lot or be a great help in designing algorithms. Especially since it can ouput code. (from a statement of requirements in natutal language) Pretty useful. Faster than going through links after links on a search engine.
danuker 4y ago
> It may not be a step towards AGI at all It caught on quite quickly for it not to be something very important.