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It is astonishing to me for someone to find no uses for it. We've been reading three custom made children adventure stories to our kids every night. My wife m

It is astonishing to me for someone to find no uses for it. We've been reading three custom made children adventure stories to our kids every night. My wife made custom black history month trivia, quizzes and posters I learned more about basic financial terms, music theory, caught up on concussion treatment and myriad other things We created quick rhymes for school And I feel there are astonishing things I haven't even touched on! Like ten million things. I'm exceedingly polite to the chat AI because I cannot believe I'm lucky and privileged enough to use something this awesome in my lifetime. I feel like a kid in candy store :). I cannot imagine that somebody can find NO USE for it!

la64710 4y ago
I too felt like a kid in the candy store but I soon discovered that if you go in depth on anything with chatGPT it just starts to repeat the same answers after a while.
gardenhedge 4y ago
I spent hours on ChatGPT asking questions about black holes. Like really dumb ones. I learned a lot!
lottin 4y ago
I have a feeling that when I read a book I get smarter, whereas when I interact with a chat bot I get dumber. And it's not just a feeling, I'm positive that this is what's actually happening.
- 0______0 4y ago
  That fits the candy store reference pretty well - the candy is not doing the kid any favors.
OOPMan 4y ago
You don't need a chatbot to do any of that. You're basically just saying your too damn lazy to do any of this stuff unless the amount of effort you need to put in is as minimal as possible. While I get being tired and stressed (I'm a parent too) I feel like what you're doing is not much better than just zoning out.
- TylerE 4y ago
  Now go tell a farmer he’s too lazy because he uses a tractor.
- logicchains 4y ago
  Let me guess, you don't wash your family's clothes by hand, instead you use a washing machine? You don't even sew them yourself, instead you buy clothes pre-made by some factory in Bangladesh? Too damn fucking lazy.
- NikolaNovak 4y ago
  That's a fairly uncharitable interpretation that I don't feel aided discussion. I used chatgpt to craft stories based on events of the day, then I reviewed and modifies, printed them out, and read them out with my kids. In a given time, it multiplied what I can achieve. I could do it without chat gpt. I could do it without computer and printer. I could do it without pen and paper. Heck I could do it the normal way and just get a generic children book. But this was fun! And it was the opposite of zoning out for all involved! :) Same for black history month quizzes and posters. It allowed my wife, in the limited time available to her (time is always limited to humans in this universe) , to do a far better job celebrating the event than ever before. I don't think she or her colleagues felt like any "zoning out" was involved, or that minimal effort was put in! We found our initial explorations exciting and involved and rich and educating. I believe there are strong limits, and there can be accuracy issues and AI hallucinating and so on. But just the basic dozen use cases are such strong effort multipliers. I have learned more and have done more with given unit of time invested. For all the extremely legitimate moral, socio economic, legal and other issues, which are extremely valid, I stand by my awe at people who say "I can find no use for this".
  - notpachet 4y ago
    "I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords"
    - NikolaNovak 4y ago
      Again,is that a helpful comment? I 1000% acknowledged and am terrified of social, economic, power implications. I think they should be discussed and debated. They are not the same thing though as "is this useful?". We can and should have discussion on dangers of nuclear and AI and ubi and myriad other things. I will still unabashedly repeat my only point in this thread - it's shocking to me that some people find "chatgpt has no use", to the point I find it disingenuous.
creativenolo 4y ago
Great comment. People don’t want search. They want something. Search boxes gets you something. People type URLs into search boxes because they want the website. They don’t want the search. Search boxes don’t make things. But now they can. Lego in your made up story. Now there’s some ad revenue. A good thing? New issues for sure.

la64710 4y ago

I too felt like a kid in the candy store but I soon discovered that if you go in depth on anything with chatGPT it just starts to repeat the same answers after a while.

gardenhedge 4y ago

I spent hours on ChatGPT asking questions about black holes. Like really dumb ones. I learned a lot!

lottin 4y ago

I have a feeling that when I read a book I get smarter, whereas when I interact with a chat bot I get dumber. And it's not just a feeling, I'm positive that this is what's actually happening.

0______0 4y ago
That fits the candy store reference pretty well - the candy is not doing the kid any favors.

OOPMan 4y ago

You don't need a chatbot to do any of that. You're basically just saying your too damn lazy to do any of this stuff unless the amount of effort you need to put in is as minimal as possible. While I get being tired and stressed (I'm a parent too) I feel like what you're doing is not much better than just zoning out.

TylerE 4y ago
Now go tell a farmer he’s too lazy because he uses a tractor.
logicchains 4y ago
Let me guess, you don't wash your family's clothes by hand, instead you use a washing machine? You don't even sew them yourself, instead you buy clothes pre-made by some factory in Bangladesh? Too damn fucking lazy.
NikolaNovak 4y ago
That's a fairly uncharitable interpretation that I don't feel aided discussion. I used chatgpt to craft stories based on events of the day, then I reviewed and modifies, printed them out, and read them out with my kids. In a given time, it multiplied what I can achieve. I could do it without chat gpt. I could do it without computer and printer. I could do it without pen and paper. Heck I could do it the normal way and just get a generic children book. But this was fun! And it was the opposite of zoning out for all involved! :) Same for black history month quizzes and posters. It allowed my wife, in the limited time available to her (time is always limited to humans in this universe) , to do a far better job celebrating the event than ever before. I don't think she or her colleagues felt like any "zoning out" was involved, or that minimal effort was put in! We found our initial explorations exciting and involved and rich and educating. I believe there are strong limits, and there can be accuracy issues and AI hallucinating and so on. But just the basic dozen use cases are such strong effort multipliers. I have learned more and have done more with given unit of time invested. For all the extremely legitimate moral, socio economic, legal and other issues, which are extremely valid, I stand by my awe at people who say "I can find no use for this".
- notpachet 4y ago
  "I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords"
  - NikolaNovak 4y ago
    Again,is that a helpful comment? I 1000% acknowledged and am terrified of social, economic, power implications. I think they should be discussed and debated. They are not the same thing though as "is this useful?". We can and should have discussion on dangers of nuclear and AI and ubi and myriad other things. I will still unabashedly repeat my only point in this thread - it's shocking to me that some people find "chatgpt has no use", to the point I find it disingenuous.

creativenolo 4y ago

Great comment. People don’t want search. They want something. Search boxes gets you something. People type URLs into search boxes because they want the website. They don’t want the search. Search boxes don’t make things. But now they can. Lego in your made up story. Now there’s some ad revenue. A good thing? New issues for sure.