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I always read here ChatGPT is amazing. Can you give a link on how to use it? Every time I tried to google it returns lots of different results and when I tried

I always read here ChatGPT is amazing. Can you give a link on how to use it? Every time I tried to google it returns lots of different results and when I tried it it:s not even usable for basic things I want. Is the ChatGPT you:re talking about on their website? Do I have to pay for it?

osigurdson 3y ago
https://chat.openai.com/ https://chat.openai.com/ I currently pay for it but I'm not sure if it makes any difference.
- p1mrx 3y ago
  https://ai.com https://ai.com is easier to type
  - osigurdson 3y ago
    Nice! Good to know.
    - p1mrx 3y ago
      Looks like ai.com now redirects to an Elon Musk site. Perhaps OpenAI never controlled the domain?
- Agingcoder 3y ago
  Yes it does - gpt 4 is vastly superior to gpt 3.
  - osigurdson 3y ago
    It is slow and rate limited however (even with the paid plan). I usually only use it when GPT3.5 isn't giving good results.
adnmcq999 3y ago
https://chat.openai.com/auth/login https://chat.openai.com/auth/login Ask it how to use it
- admiral-mohamed 3y ago
  How to use
alex_lav 3y ago
You're mostly right in your experience. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to get ChatGPT to be a worthwhile piece of my workflow, and I guess sometimes it is, but most of the time the basic code or config or content I try to generate, it gets very fundamental things incorrect. It feels like it's mostly just hype these days.
- honzabe 3y ago
  Can you please specify whether you use (paid) GPT-4? Would you kindly provide links to a few examples of very fundamental things incorrect? My experience - the free version made up a lot of things but still felt very useful - enough to want to upgrade to the paid version. With the paid version, I notice very rarely that it hallucinates. It does make errors but it can correct them when I provide feedback. It is possible that I just do not notice the errors you would notice, it is also possible that we use it differently. I would like to know.
  - alex_lav 3y ago
    > Can you please specify whether you use (paid) GPT-4? Paid. > Would you kindly provide links to a few examples of very fundamental things incorrect? No, definitely not. > I notice very rarely that it hallucinates. Unsure of what "hallucinates" means in this case. Some examples of things I've used it for: docker configuration, small blocks of code, generating a cover letter, proofreading a document, YAML validation, questions about various software SDKs. The outcome is usually somewhere on the spectrum of "not even close/not even valid output" to "kind of close but not close enough to warrant a paid service". When I ask for a simple paragraph and I get a response that isn't grammatically correct/doesn't include punctuation, I'm not sure what I'm paying for.
    - honzabe 3y ago
      >> Unsure of what "hallucinates" means in this case The term "hallucinations" is now commonly used for instances of AI making stuff up - like when I asked ChatGPT (before I had paid account) to recommend 5 books about a certain topic and two of the recommended books looked totally plausible, but when I tried to find them, I discovered there are no such books. This is where I see a big difference between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. >> I get a response that isn't grammatically correct/doesn't include punctuation What punctuation? If you mean stuff like commas separating complex sentences, my English is definitely not good enough to spot that. But your mention of punctuation reminded me of problems that ChatGPT has with my native language... any chance you are using ChatGPT in a language other than English?
Eisenstein 3y ago
> Can you give a link on how to use it? Every time I tried to google it returns lots of different results and when I tried it it:s not even usable for basic things I want. Here is an example of using it to write simple powershell scripts: * https://chat.openai.com/share/17a9d185-4a8c-4c10-97a2-0c5b0886f63e https://chat.openai.com/share/17a9d185-4a8c-4c10-97a2-0c5b08... Here is an example of using it to merge different types of json configuration files: * https://chat.openai.com/share/ed0c9cf9-7586-43df-9271-7b5859f168b0 https://chat.openai.com/share/ed0c9cf9-7586-43df-9271-7b5859... You need to pay for it if you want access to the latest version of the model, along with some beta features like plugins. Plugins are extremely useful and it is worth paying just to get access to them. For instance, you need to have a certain plugin to get it to read links.
- merdaverse 3y ago
  In that JSON example you're honestly losing more time with ChatGPT that doing it yourself. It seems more like mentoring a junior than a helpful assistant. Most of my interactions with it have been this way.
  - Eisenstein 3y ago
    I knew/know very little about 3D printers and the fields didn't mean much to me so I didn't want to have to research every one of them. It wouldn't have been difficult, just tedious.

osigurdson 3y ago

https://chat.openai.com/ https://chat.openai.com/ I currently pay for it but I'm not sure if it makes any difference.

p1mrx 3y ago
https://ai.com https://ai.com is easier to type
- osigurdson 3y ago
  Nice! Good to know.
  - p1mrx 3y ago
    Looks like ai.com now redirects to an Elon Musk site. Perhaps OpenAI never controlled the domain?
Agingcoder 3y ago
Yes it does - gpt 4 is vastly superior to gpt 3.
- osigurdson 3y ago
  It is slow and rate limited however (even with the paid plan). I usually only use it when GPT3.5 isn't giving good results.

adnmcq999 3y ago

https://chat.openai.com/auth/login https://chat.openai.com/auth/login Ask it how to use it

admiral-mohamed 3y ago
How to use

alex_lav 3y ago

You're mostly right in your experience. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to get ChatGPT to be a worthwhile piece of my workflow, and I guess sometimes it is, but most of the time the basic code or config or content I try to generate, it gets very fundamental things incorrect. It feels like it's mostly just hype these days.

honzabe 3y ago
Can you please specify whether you use (paid) GPT-4? Would you kindly provide links to a few examples of very fundamental things incorrect? My experience - the free version made up a lot of things but still felt very useful - enough to want to upgrade to the paid version. With the paid version, I notice very rarely that it hallucinates. It does make errors but it can correct them when I provide feedback. It is possible that I just do not notice the errors you would notice, it is also possible that we use it differently. I would like to know.
- alex_lav 3y ago
  > Can you please specify whether you use (paid) GPT-4? Paid. > Would you kindly provide links to a few examples of very fundamental things incorrect? No, definitely not. > I notice very rarely that it hallucinates. Unsure of what "hallucinates" means in this case. Some examples of things I've used it for: docker configuration, small blocks of code, generating a cover letter, proofreading a document, YAML validation, questions about various software SDKs. The outcome is usually somewhere on the spectrum of "not even close/not even valid output" to "kind of close but not close enough to warrant a paid service". When I ask for a simple paragraph and I get a response that isn't grammatically correct/doesn't include punctuation, I'm not sure what I'm paying for.
  - honzabe 3y ago
    >> Unsure of what "hallucinates" means in this case The term "hallucinations" is now commonly used for instances of AI making stuff up - like when I asked ChatGPT (before I had paid account) to recommend 5 books about a certain topic and two of the recommended books looked totally plausible, but when I tried to find them, I discovered there are no such books. This is where I see a big difference between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. >> I get a response that isn't grammatically correct/doesn't include punctuation What punctuation? If you mean stuff like commas separating complex sentences, my English is definitely not good enough to spot that. But your mention of punctuation reminded me of problems that ChatGPT has with my native language... any chance you are using ChatGPT in a language other than English?

Eisenstein 3y ago

> Can you give a link on how to use it? Every time I tried to google it returns lots of different results and when I tried it it:s not even usable for basic things I want. Here is an example of using it to write simple powershell scripts: * https://chat.openai.com/share/17a9d185-4a8c-4c10-97a2-0c5b0886f63e https://chat.openai.com/share/17a9d185-4a8c-4c10-97a2-0c5b08... Here is an example of using it to merge different types of json configuration files: * https://chat.openai.com/share/ed0c9cf9-7586-43df-9271-7b5859f168b0 https://chat.openai.com/share/ed0c9cf9-7586-43df-9271-7b5859... You need to pay for it if you want access to the latest version of the model, along with some beta features like plugins. Plugins are extremely useful and it is worth paying just to get access to them. For instance, you need to have a certain plugin to get it to read links.

merdaverse 3y ago
In that JSON example you're honestly losing more time with ChatGPT that doing it yourself. It seems more like mentoring a junior than a helpful assistant. Most of my interactions with it have been this way.
- Eisenstein 3y ago
  I knew/know very little about 3D printers and the fields didn't mean much to me so I didn't want to have to research every one of them. It wouldn't have been difficult, just tedious.