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This aligns perfectly with my experience. I feel like I haven't found the correct way to utilize these tools yet as, just like you, whenever I attempt to use th

This aligns perfectly with my experience. I feel like I haven't found the correct way to utilize these tools yet as, just like you, whenever I attempt to use them for some intellectual work it proves to be a huge waste of time and the old manual hunt for information and DIY approach is much more effective. I know a lot of people leverage gpt for basic writing tasks. I'm confident in my writing ability and enjoy writing so I don't use it for that either. I might try using image models at some point to generate some pixel art, but on the whole I've found these tools pretty useless and am left wondering what I'm missing. To me it seems like they only work for a very specific case: "I have no background knowledge in domain X and am ok with a quick solution that is adequate but likely not optimal, and I don't need to worry about about correctness." Unfortunately, that's completely out of the realm of the sort of work I like to do.

balder1991 3y ago
One thing I like to do with it is telling it to act as a machine that, for every text I paste, it outputs specific academic subjects and their respective courses that dive deep into that subject, so I know where to learn more. Another option is you want to learn about X, you can ask ChatGPT to give you a list of authors or subjects that discuss that topic deeper, which give you a head start, as you can then ask follow up questions such as where their central argument fit in the bigger scheme, which were more influential etc.