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I just want to point out that ChatGPT is not an AI search product. It is a little like a "rubber duck" in my usage, and that is pretty helpful, but not somethi
by pclmulqdq 4y ago
I just want to point out that ChatGPT is not an AI search product. It is a little like a "rubber duck" in my usage, and that is pretty helpful, but not something you lean on for factual research. Some other people use it as a copywriter or editor, which is another good use.
- MBCook 4y agoI agree. But I seem to keep seeing people trying to use it like a search engine or a Q&A site where you can just ask it whatever you want to know. But it can’t do that. It can do a lot of other things, useful or just fun. But it’s not a virtual professor that knows the correct answer to any question.
- codefreakxff 4y agoIn some areas it does a good job of giving me a better answer than me checking 5-10 random stack overflow and blog posts with different answers over 20 years... But, it is completely incapable of saying "I don't know the answer to that" and will spew the wrong answer to anything. For fun I have arguments with ChatGPT that it is just making things up and it should just tell me "I don't know" and it will happily say "I'm sorry, you are right. Here is the right answer <insert made up fact>" and it will do so generating random garbage indefinitely. The problem is that I can't trust it to provide facts any better than asking my bull-shitting co-worker who is convinced he is right about everything and when called out says "yeah, that's what I was saying, <insert contradictory thing>"