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> ChatGPT generates unhelpful, plausible-looking nonsense. Absolutely not! I created a powershell script for converting one ASM label format to another for ret

> ChatGPT generates unhelpful, plausible-looking nonsense. Absolutely not! I created a powershell script for converting one ASM label format to another for retro game development and i used ChatGPT to write it. Now, it fumbled some of the basic program logic, however, it absolutely nailed all of the specific regex and obtuse powershell commands that i needed and that i merely described to it in plain English. It essentially aced the "hard parts" of the script and i was able to take what it generated and make it fit my needs perfectly with some minor tweaking. The end result was far cleaner and far beyond what i would have been able to write myself, all in a fraction of the time. This ain't no breathless marketing dude: this thing is the real deal. ChatGPT is an extremely powerful tool and an absolute game changer for development. Just because it is imperfect and needs a bit of hand holding (which it may not soon), do not underestimate it, and do not discount the idea that it may become an absolute industry disrupter in the painfully near future. I'm excited ...and scared

robotresearcher 3y ago
>> ChatGPT generates unhelpful, plausible-looking nonsense. > Absolutely not! It does, quite often. Not only that, as you describe. But it does. For example, I asked it what my most cited paper is, and it made up a plausible-sounding but non-existent paper, along with fabricated Google Scholar citation counts. Totally unhelpful. It also can produce very useful things.
- actionfromafar 3y ago
  I find it’s better at really mainstream things. The web is riddled with Powershell examples.
- nicetryguy 3y ago
  Right, i think it's a question of how to use this tool in its current state, including prompting practice and learning its strengths. It can certainly be wrong sometimes, but man, it is already a game changer for writing, coding, and i'm sure other disciplines. If you're a robotresearcher, maybe try getting it to whip up some ...verilog circuits or something? I don't know much about your field or what you do specifically, but tasks like regular expressions or specific code syntax it is absolutely brilliant at, whatever the equivalent to that is in hardware. ...I've only ever replaced capacitors and wired some guitar pickups. > it made up a plausible-sounding but non-existent paper, along with fabricated Google Scholar citation counts I ran into a similar issue: I asked it for codebases of similar romhacks to a project i'm doing, and it provided made up Github repos with completely unrelated authors for romhacks that do actually exist: non-existent hyperlinks and everything. Now, studying the difference in GPT generations, it seems like more horsepower and more data solves alot of GPT problems and produces emergent capabilities with the same or similar architecture and code. The current data points to this trend continuing. I find it both super exciting and super ...concerning.
- unreal37 3y ago
  >> I asked it what my most cited paper is You asked a machine learning model to tell you something about yourself that you already knew?
  - misnome 3y ago
    This seems like the perfect test, because it's something that does have information on the internet - but not infinite information, and you know precisely what is wrong about the answer.

robotresearcher 3y ago

>> ChatGPT generates unhelpful, plausible-looking nonsense. > Absolutely not! It does, quite often. Not only that, as you describe. But it does. For example, I asked it what my most cited paper is, and it made up a plausible-sounding but non-existent paper, along with fabricated Google Scholar citation counts. Totally unhelpful. It also can produce very useful things.

actionfromafar 3y ago
I find it’s better at really mainstream things. The web is riddled with Powershell examples.
nicetryguy 3y ago
Right, i think it's a question of how to use this tool in its current state, including prompting practice and learning its strengths. It can certainly be wrong sometimes, but man, it is already a game changer for writing, coding, and i'm sure other disciplines. If you're a robotresearcher, maybe try getting it to whip up some ...verilog circuits or something? I don't know much about your field or what you do specifically, but tasks like regular expressions or specific code syntax it is absolutely brilliant at, whatever the equivalent to that is in hardware. ...I've only ever replaced capacitors and wired some guitar pickups. > it made up a plausible-sounding but non-existent paper, along with fabricated Google Scholar citation counts I ran into a similar issue: I asked it for codebases of similar romhacks to a project i'm doing, and it provided made up Github repos with completely unrelated authors for romhacks that do actually exist: non-existent hyperlinks and everything. Now, studying the difference in GPT generations, it seems like more horsepower and more data solves alot of GPT problems and produces emergent capabilities with the same or similar architecture and code. The current data points to this trend continuing. I find it both super exciting and super ...concerning.
unreal37 3y ago
>> I asked it what my most cited paper is You asked a machine learning model to tell you something about yourself that you already knew?
- misnome 3y ago
  This seems like the perfect test, because it's something that does have information on the internet - but not infinite information, and you know precisely what is wrong about the answer.