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I use Bard often to help me with proofreading and writing. Things that used to be a chore are now easy. I've been able to knock out a whitepaper I've been sitti
by forgotmypw17 3y ago
I use Bard often to help me with proofreading and writing. Things that used to be a chore are now easy. I've been able to knock out a whitepaper I've been sitting on for months in just a few days.
I think asking it for precise answers is the wrong approach. At this point, Bard is a lot more of an artist than a mathematician or scientist. So it's like approaching Van Gogh and asking him to do linear algebra.
Bard is really good at some things, and if you understand how to work with him, he can take you far.
- cookie_monsta 3y agoAren't you worried that relying on it so much will eventually result in your natural prose sounding like it was created by an LLM?
- famouswaffles 3y agoLLMs can write as naturally as you want. You can even paste some of your writing to emulate. The default style is just the default.
- cookie_monsta 3y agoHmm, maybe it got better at this but my experiments a few months ago were pretty underwhelming. It did ok at emulating really distinct styles with lots of examples (Shakespeare) but surprisingly badly at more subtle styles with less examples (Tupac). In the latter case it would revert to default-speak after a while, with the odd bit of vocabulary thrown in. Tupac's entire ouevre is online, so it should be able to emulate him flawlessly. How much of my text will I have to feed it so it sounds like me? My point is that we learn to write by reading. If someone is constantly looking at chatGPT output as exemplar that's going to change the way they write. The comment I was replying to is classic default GPT style, especially that last paragraph, even if it was written by a human.
- forgotmypw17 3y agoNot particularly, but it's a valid concern to be mindful of. Thank you.