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I have no idea what to do right now, I use ChatGPT all day while studying new concepts. It condenses time needed to understand complex new information by severa
by soulofmischief 3y ago
I have no idea what to do right now, I use ChatGPT all day while studying new concepts. It condenses time needed to understand complex new information by several magnitudes, and at this juncture studying without it seems pointless, it's rapidly become an extra layer in my brain.
- simulosius 3y ago> I have no idea what to do right now Well, humanity has managed to "know what to do" for thousands of years but here you are, completely lost without ChatGPT. Achievement unlocked .
- soulofmischief 3y agoDid you read my comment? I'm not saying I'm bored, I'm saying I wasn't initially sure how to best proceed with my day, which involves a lot of fast-paced knowledge acquisition which generalized LLMs make possible.
- Alifatisk 3y agoPlease do not rely on these tools, they should not be a dependency of your thinking. My bookshelf have a 100% uptime!
- willsmith72 3y agoThis is why wherever I travel in the world I print out paper maps of every city and village I think I might go, I don't want to get a dependency on a digital map. My paper maps have a 100% uptime. \s
- Garlef 3y ago[flagged]
- Alifatisk 3y agoDo I really sound that old? I am closer to 20 than 30!
- klohto 3y agoI too bring my horse everywhere. I do not rely on such devious gas monsters on 4 wheels.
- soulofmischief 3y agoNext you'll tell me I shouldn't use a calculator, or a computer at all. The conceptual level at which I work benefits massively from the recent developments in LLMs, and to stop training myself for the new meta means to drastically fall behind and possibly miss my goals. There is absolutely no reason not to evolve alongside this new technology.
- slikrick 3y agothe fact you even think they are comparable to a calculator is scary. they're not in any way comparable.
- soulofmischief 3y agoCan you please elaborate?
- Alifatisk 3y agochatGPT is a service. A calculator is hardware.
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 3y agoChatGPT is the black box that is pushing the buttons of the calculator for you. You don’t learn maths or programming with this service. If the calculator is broken, I can still work slowly but I understand what I do. Without experience, you can’t understand what the black box is giving you.
- soulofmischief 3y agoYou're just projecting your own ignorance on the process. I constantly learn new maths or programming while working alongside LLMs. They increase and augment my experience, they don't subtract from it. You need a developed strategy when it comes to work and research, and if you already have a good one, adding GPT as a resource only helps you.
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- hecksideci_1 3y agoTry out Bing Chat. GPT4 is the basis for Bing Chat. It can be annoying with its message limits, lack of chat history, and tendency to point you to websites. Though, you can switch it to creative mode which is pretty similar to the workflow of ChatGPT, the GPT4 version.
- willsmith72 3y agoIs it still only in edge?
- soulofmischief 3y agoYou can spoof your user agent from what I understand.
- Tommstein 3y agoWhy bother, Phind uses GPT-4 (sometimes) without Microsoft's Edge restriction bullshit.
- soulofmischief 3y agoThanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, Bing Chat leaves a bad taste in my mouth due to user agent restriction and other shitty behaviors, which I have no desire to work around.
- adorton 3y agoHow do you know the information you're getting is factual?
- nisegami 3y agoFor a lot of use-cases, it actually doesn't matter that much.
- soulofmischief 3y agoI will ask you the same question about the information which you read on the internet. Whatever your answer is, apply that to ChatGPT. It is no different.
- adorton 3y agoYeah but if I'm doing research online I'm going to stick with sources I consider reliable, written by real people and not a text generator. So I'm not sure I understand the comparison you're trying to make.
- soulofmischief 3y agoPlease read my responses to your sibling commenters.
- MagaMuffin 3y ago[dead]
- slikrick 3y agoyou read sources and original works, did you actually think this was a gotcha? you are depriving yourself of proper learning and knowledge lol
- soulofmischief 3y agoNo, you're just making hasty judgements. I read scientific papers, articles and references in one pane while keeping GPT open in another pane to help me make the most use out of the knowledge in the quickest timeframe. I frequently browse additional resources in order to corroborate information. Please do not project onto me. Ask questions about my process before assuming I'm "depriving myself", which you are likely ironically doing yourself in light of your attitude towards GPT.
- nickthegreek 3y agoget API access and use https://github.com/Bin-Huang/chatbox https://github.com/Bin-Huang/chatbox when the web UI is down.
- soulofmischief 3y agoChatbox is neat. I have API access but I'd rather not pay for large-context GPT-4 requests while I already have pro, it's good to spend this time improving on llama.cpp's built-in chat server if you ask me :) Edit: And we're back!
- Erikun 3y agoThis is a level of dystopian helplessness I have a hard time wrapping my head around.
- selfhoster11 3y agoLLMs are not a bad tool, provided you control them. Using Llama 2 deployed locally is far from dystopian.
- Erikun 3y agoIt's not the tool that is dystopian, it's the mindset expressed in the post.
- soulofmischief 3y agoWhat is dystopian about my mindset? Are you sure you correctly understood my post?
- dingus9001 3y agoRelying on chatgpt is a great way to learn everything wrong and not even know why everything you learned was wrong