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> I can't copy paste an entire book chapter and have flashcards in 30 seconds. If that's your bar for whether or not it changes the job outlook for software de
by callwhendone 3y ago
> I can't copy paste an entire book chapter and have flashcards in 30 seconds.
If that's your bar for whether or not it changes the job outlook for software development over the next DECADE, I think you need to recalibrate.
- smk_ 3y agoIf I took 2 weeks off from work I could build this prototype quite easily. We're in an interesting period where the space of possibilities is so large it just takes a while for the "market" to exhaust it.
- callwhendone 3y agoQuizlet has a feature to build flashcards using AI. I'm sure they could write a backend service that just chunked the entire chapter.
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoIt doesn't work well enough yet. The flashcards it generates don't actually fit well into its own ecosystem. When you try to build the "quizzes", the wrong answers are trivially spottable. Further, even the generated questions are stilted don't hit parity with manually generated flashcards. My use of ChatGPT for this purpose is so far mostly limited to a sanity check, e.g. "Do these notes cover the major points of this topic?" Usually it'll spit back out "Yep looks good" or some major missed point, like The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 for a topic on the Civil War's economic complexity. I'll also use it to reformat content, "Convert these questions and answers into Anki format."
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoEr, why did you rewrite what I wrote but then pretend like it was a quote? That's a really weird way to reply! But to address your point, my "bar" is that OpenAI's ChatGPT fails to solve problems for me on a many-times-a-day basis. It's an immensely helpful tool, but I still need to drive it, so it's not replacing me, it's augmenting me.