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If you expect ChatGPT to give you information or direct you to it (like Wikipedia or Google) you will be frequently disappointed. You may also be frequently ple

If you expect ChatGPT to give you information or direct you to it (like Wikipedia or Google) you will be frequently disappointed. You may also be frequently pleased, but you often won’t be sure which and that’s a problem. ChatGPT is very good at transforming information. You need to show up with stuff and then have it change that stuff for you somehow. You will be disappointed less often.

Capricorn2481 4y ago
It has been surprisingly terrible at this for me, lately. I had a pretty simple list, which was a list of monthly expenses in a separate list, like this. Groceries - 200 Phone bill - 70 I just wanted it to add these expenses up. Exactly the type of thing it should be good at. New conversation with no context. It could not do it. I wrestled with it for a long time. It kept "correcting" itself to another wrong answer. Eventually I reported it and the report recommended the correct answer.
- travisjungroth 4y ago
  It’s not good at math. It can do stuff sometimes, and you can easily teach it to use a calculator. What’s similar that it would be good at is extracting what you bought and turn it into a list and formula. [Me] Extract the list of things that I bought and their prices. Write a shell command to figure out how much I spent. I spent 200 on groceries and paid my 70 phone bill. I was going to buy three pairs of pants that were $40 each. I didn’t like the colors. I bought a t shirt for thirty. And I did end up buying one pair of pants. But it was 5 dollars more than those other ones. And I bought bag of tea for every day next year, they were a quarter each. [ChatGPT] List of things bought and their prices: Groceries: $200 Phone bill: $70 T-shirt: $30 One pair of pants: $45 Bag of tea: $0.25 To figure out how much was spent, you can use the following shell command: echo $((200 + 70 + 30 + 45 + 365*0.25)) This command will add up the prices of all the items, including the bag of tea for every day next year. The output will be the total amount spent.

Capricorn2481 4y ago

It has been surprisingly terrible at this for me, lately. I had a pretty simple list, which was a list of monthly expenses in a separate list, like this. Groceries - 200 Phone bill - 70 I just wanted it to add these expenses up. Exactly the type of thing it should be good at. New conversation with no context. It could not do it. I wrestled with it for a long time. It kept "correcting" itself to another wrong answer. Eventually I reported it and the report recommended the correct answer.

travisjungroth 4y ago
It’s not good at math. It can do stuff sometimes, and you can easily teach it to use a calculator. What’s similar that it would be good at is extracting what you bought and turn it into a list and formula. [Me] Extract the list of things that I bought and their prices. Write a shell command to figure out how much I spent. I spent 200 on groceries and paid my 70 phone bill. I was going to buy three pairs of pants that were $40 each. I didn’t like the colors. I bought a t shirt for thirty. And I did end up buying one pair of pants. But it was 5 dollars more than those other ones. And I bought bag of tea for every day next year, they were a quarter each. [ChatGPT] List of things bought and their prices: Groceries: $200 Phone bill: $70 T-shirt: $30 One pair of pants: $45 Bag of tea: $0.25 To figure out how much was spent, you can use the following shell command: echo $((200 + 70 + 30 + 45 + 365*0.25)) This command will add up the prices of all the items, including the bag of tea for every day next year. The output will be the total amount spent.