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Yes, I see what you mean. But just like you're being less productive when you try to instruct someone else on how to do things, if you follow that path with Cha
by aflag 4y ago
Yes, I see what you mean. But just like you're being less productive when you try to instruct someone else on how to do things, if you follow that path with ChatGPT you'll likely be less productive too. I think ChatGPT adds more value when you ask things you don't quite know or figured out yet. Sometimes it hallucinates, which you can usually figure out quickly, but sometimes it does give good insights which would take longer for you to get than the time you lose by checking hallucinations. It's a decent advisor. It's a rubber duck on steroids.
I guess copilot is a bit different in that regard though, I haven't used that much, but I heard it's good at writing unit tests.
PS: you should probably not refer to a someone else as "it", specially if you are more senior than them.
- ekidd 4y agoThe only entity I'm referring to as "it" in the above post is ChatGPT. That seems like the most appropriate pronoun to me? No existing AI system seems to have achieved personhood in a sense that would incline me to refer to it as "they." And when asked, GPT 4 informs me that "as an AI model I have no preferences" (of course), but it suggests that "it" would be appropriate. Do you have an argument why using "it" to refer to a current-generation AI persona is inappropriate? If so, I would be genuinely interested to hear it!
- aflag 4y agoAh, that's good. I thought some of the references were regarding the engineer you were pairing with.