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My girlfriend uses it to write her Instagram captions. My nephews use it to do homework. Anywhere you need text written, it can generate something. Like you sa
by doix 4y ago
My girlfriend uses it to write her Instagram captions. My nephews use it to do homework.
Anywhere you need text written, it can generate something. Like you said, it might not be correct, but you can read what it tells you, you don't need to copy paste it verbatim.
Rather than asking it a question, feed it some bullet points and watch it convert it into paragraphs. Read the paragraphs and remove anything extra it added. It probably saved you 10-20 minutes and lots of frustration depending on how much you hate writing.
If you can't see the use for yourself, that's fine. But I really don't believe that you can't see how it would be useful to other people.
I find it hilarious to compare with crypto, where the majority of projects are purely about speculation.
- ChatGTP 4y agoFunny though, I actually know people who are still using crypto for various things. So you're kind of snarky remark about how I might not find ChatGPT useful also applies to people who use crypto too. Like I said I do use the GPT...when I see fit, mostly just when I want to see what it can do, or how it might do something different. Of course it can be useful in some ways. I still don't understand what the actual use of it is. ChatGPT comes with a disclaimer on the box which alerts you to the fact that it's basically an experiment and by using it, you're part of the experiment. Should a my lawyer use it when giving me legal advice even though we don't know that it's giving correct information? Should I use it instead of a doctor? Should your doctor use it in your next visit? I mean there is a chance that even OpenAI were never expecting it to blow up the way it did? People have become a little too defensive over a product because it talks?
- mbwgh 4y ago> Anywhere you need text written, it can generate something. > Rather than asking it a question, feed it some bullet points and watch it convert it into paragraphs. Part of me is hopeful that this will have the effect of people recognizing that maybe a) The text didn't need to be written after all, or b) The bullet point you started out with, were enough after all. There is too much content being produced out of a notion of "something has to be here" for layout reasons, or because its simply what somebody expects. Probably, ubiquitous use of generative text model will worsen the signal-to-noise ratio we see in media today.
- doix 4y agoYeah, I 100% agree. I'm hopeful that the end game will be that people will realize that having AI write garbage to have AI then summarize it is pointless. But for now, it's not acceptable to communicate with half sentences and bullet points, so AI is useful.
- textninja 4y agoFair point, but - uno reverse card - maybe it will make tedious exposition so effortless and superfluous that nobody wants to do it anymore. It might do to overlong text what border-radius did to rounded corners, and discourse will trend back to wit and concision over ceremony and formality. Businesses will value drafts - unpolished bullet points, like you describe - over finished pieces, because they’ll feed everything into standardized models fine-tuned by Brand Prompt Engineers to generate copy in the organization’s voice.
- zamnos 4y agoNot just bullet points, but tone and professionalism too. ChatGPT will translate "fuck you, pay me" to "Please provide payment as soon as possible." Now, in the future, after the Zoomers take over, it's entirely possible that "fuck you, pay me" will become acceptable language between professionals and seen as a reasonable way to request remittance. But until then, we'll still need to rewrite things for a different audience in a way to best accomplish your goal.
- ElijahLynn 4y agoSociety has already accepted a light form of this for quite sometime already now. Which is grammar check.