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Anything low stakes like learning a new language or writing some code/creating some art for a landing page for a new idea.
by hackerlight 4y ago
Anything low stakes like learning a new language or writing some code/creating some art for a landing page for a new idea.
- asdff 4y agoWe've seen things like it spitting out incorrect code that looks correct. I would think that would set you up for failure if you tried to use this unreliable highly confident teacher to learn the fundamentals of anything. Maybe you can create some art but I guess that depends on how good you prompt, so its probably easier to iterate quickly with an artist you hired on fiver.
- hackerlight 4y agoDon't forget that this thing is way cheaper than a human. Of course I'd prefer to hire a real language tutor or a real artist on Fiverr, but for many use-cases (e.g. my first 3 months learning a new language) I am happy for something 98% as good for 1% of the price. Not everything is a binary where the tutor/helper/artist needs to be absolutely perfect else it's completely useless. There are low stakes use cases where you don't need perfection and are happy to accept that trade-off for the lower cost. So the real comparison in many situations is between using ChatGPT as a language tutor, and not having a language tutor at all, and I know which one I'd prefer.
- asdff 4y agoIf you can't afford the tutor, then its not really a tradeoff between chatgpt and the tutor. Its a tradoff between chatgpt and some other way to spend your time to learn a language. I suspect you'd probably advance faster through your first three months of a language spending the same chunks of time with a language learning book from the library than with chatgpt, which might very well be teaching you how to conjugate a verb in latin instead of spanish or some other error the model makes.