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Here are a couple of recent examples: 1) I wanted to make a github action to auto build, run tests and publish a package. I don't do a lot of this type of work

Here are a couple of recent examples: 1) I wanted to make a github action to auto build, run tests and publish a package. I don't do a lot of this type of work so quite unfamiliar with it. ChatGPT gave me a very good start with some example yaml which I was able to tweak and get started with. When something wasn't working with my tweaked yaml file, I asked it what the problem was and it was able to pin-point the issue right away. I don't use it at work for anything but it is very useful for side projects and things like that. 2) I had some example json text from a service for which I wanted to create some serialization classes. This is easy to do but it is tedious work. ChatGPT was able to write most of this for me. There are likely tools, websites, services that can create this, but the experience in ChatGPT is pretty great - copy and paste in some json text and ask it to create the code. If it isn't quite right, give it some additionally instructions. When 80% OK, manually tweak it. 3) I use it to get ideas for things or to provide answers about things. For example, one of the commenters in this thread discussed the "AI scaling hypothesis". Google would have had a good answer for this but if you happen to have any questions(after the initial response is provided) this is a completely new search. ChatGPT, though not always correct, feels a lot more calming to use. Google seems very "noisy" to me now. Google is still very necessary but it feels like only 20% of queries need to go there at this point.

ethanbond 4y ago
I see. I’m skeptical all of this (and similar use cases) could add up to “as much or more” than the regular internet. The average internet usage is something like 6-7 hours per day. I don’t see how even extremely heavy usage of GPT gets anywhere close to that, unless much of that time is “playing” (which is itself extremely cool!)
- osigurdson 4y ago
  The comparison I draw is to google search, not general internet usage like Netflix and YouTube. I think it makes sense to use ChatGPT more often than search for most of my use cases. Fully agree that it does not replace the entire internet.
  - ethanbond 4y ago
    Okay yes that I find much more believable. Information retrieval is pretty awesome, though I’d suggest a lot of that is due to the inferiority of the search engine business model than superiority of LLM technology. Especially if hallucinations and fake citations are solvable, this will be a killer app for sure. Obviously generative usecases are awesome (though IMO will be practically fewer and further between than people seem to think), and summarization usecases are awesome.

ethanbond 4y ago

I see. I’m skeptical all of this (and similar use cases) could add up to “as much or more” than the regular internet. The average internet usage is something like 6-7 hours per day. I don’t see how even extremely heavy usage of GPT gets anywhere close to that, unless much of that time is “playing” (which is itself extremely cool!)

osigurdson 4y ago
The comparison I draw is to google search, not general internet usage like Netflix and YouTube. I think it makes sense to use ChatGPT more often than search for most of my use cases. Fully agree that it does not replace the entire internet.
- ethanbond 4y ago
  Okay yes that I find much more believable. Information retrieval is pretty awesome, though I’d suggest a lot of that is due to the inferiority of the search engine business model than superiority of LLM technology. Especially if hallucinations and fake citations are solvable, this will be a killer app for sure. Obviously generative usecases are awesome (though IMO will be practically fewer and further between than people seem to think), and summarization usecases are awesome.