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I found ChatGPT helpful in a bunch of diverse situations. I'll go into detail below, but overall I think the most valuable thing it can do is understand questio
by nazgul17 4y ago
I found ChatGPT helpful in a bunch of diverse situations. I'll go into detail below, but overall I think the most valuable thing it can do is understand questions that takes both knowledge (that I don't have and want to acquire) and understanding (that prior AI technologies did not have) and provide meaningful answers. I suppose I find it very useful for my own education - with the understanding that I should use 2 or 3 grains of salt when reading its answers.
For example, I am studying Japanese and often encounter expressions that seems to mean the same thing; I would ask my teacher, but her time is limited. I can instead ask ChatGPT and only bring to my teacher the questions whose ChatGPT answers did not convince me.
Another example: I like understanding why there are certain steps in a recipe. It would be hard to find someone with the knowledge and time to answer the question, never mind I should pay for their time. ChatGPT can explain what I want to know at the level of detail that I want.
I was also able to get a decent understanding of a mathematical question I had no business understanding by recursively asking questions until I was able to link its answers to my own knowledge.
It was also able to answer questions about the Spring framework that I had while reading the documentation itself. In that context, going in rabbit holes severely slows down learning and has the potential to just get me lost.
- glandium 4y agoBe wary with ChatGPT and Japanese. As someone fluent enough and using ChatGPT for inspiration in writing, as well as to find words that either I have "on the tip of my tongue" but fail to remember, or find idiomatic expressions that I may or may not have heard of, ChatGPT can come up with weird hallucinations (Edit: to the point of making up words, I guess mainly because its tokens are at best at the character level ; knowing that, it's amazing it performs as well as it does, honestly). I always double check with Google searches, but at least ChatGPT gets me somewhere where I can actually search for something useful. Relatedly, sometimes, even with an initial prompt I've used in the past to make it do what I need to a text in Japanese, and despite everything I type being in Japanese, sometimes it decides to respond entirely in English. It can also be really bad with context. Because in Japanese, the subject is often omitted because it's known from context, ChatGPT often mixes things up when rewording or summarizing.
- roer 4y agoAre you using GPT4 or 3?
- glandium 4y agoGPT-3. I assumed that's what most people mean with ChatGPT. Usually, people specify for 3.5 or 4. Is GPT-4 significantly better with Japanese?
- fomine3 4y agoIt's night and day in Japanese.
- literalAardvark 4y agoGPT-4 is dramatically better with everything except speed. The minutia most people in this thread are complaining about is almost completely solved by GPT-4. For example I used it over like 30 minutes to conceptualize, solve, and write some code that draws a graphic for a simple physics problem (0-shot) that I could intuitively understand but had no (physics and math knowledge) tools to calculate properly and it was a great experience. It let me pick and change how what properties i wanted represented on the graph, knew what center of mass means, how to calculate it for a weird object, got something that feels correct to me, drew it out with various representations where i used color, size, shape to represent the various distances, weights, clusters, etc. My non programmer friends have used generative networks to make designs for prints, incredible and generally accurate folk art, full mobile games. People are sleeping on this. Don't be them.
- worrycue 4y agoA lot of your examples you can just google search for the answer - and at least google won’t hallucinate; worst case the websites are wrong but GPT’s training data can be wrong too.