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What are you using it for? I want to know what people actually use these things for damn it !

asaddhamani 3y ago
I'd built a bot to use ChatGPT from Telegram (this was before the ChatGPT API), and currently building a tool to help make writing easier (https://www.penpersona.com https://www.penpersona.com). This is the API. Apart from that, it's pretty much replaced 80% of my search engine usage, I can ask it to collate reviews for a product from reddit and other sites, get the critical reception of a book, etc. You don't have to go and read long posts and articles, have GPT do it for you. There's many other use cases like this. For the second part, I'm using a UI called Typing Mind (which also works with the API).
- toyg 3y ago
  > currently building a tool to help make writing easier That's cool! > it's pretty much replaced 80% of my search engine usage That's not cool. That's how you end up relying on nonexisting sources or other hallucinations.
  - Karunamon 3y ago
    As opposed to raw information surfaced by the search engine, which we all know is perfectly reliable, unbiased, and up to date? That aside, this particular admonishment was worn out a couple of months after ChatGPT was released. It does not need to be repeated every time someone mentions doing something interesting with an LLM.
  - asaddhamani 3y ago
    > That's not cool. That's how you end up relying on nonexisting sources or other hallucinations. I have integrated a search engine plugin and a web browsing plugin, which means I don't have to do the search, for example I can ask it to compare the battery life of 3 phones, it'll do 3 searches, might open couple of reddit threads too, then give me the info that I need. It's miles ahead of the current experience with search engines.
williamcotton 3y ago
Retrieving the non-metadata titles of 45,000 various PDF, docx, etc. without a bunch of rules/regexs that would fail half the time. “Derp derp, hallucinations”. Eh, no, not in practice, not when the entire context and document is provided and the tools are used correctly.
code_runner 3y ago
Summarizing large documents. Finding relationships between two (or more) documents. Building a set of points bridging the gap between the documents. Correcting malformed text data. Not everything is just data in a database or some structured format. Sometimes you have blobs of text from a user, or maybe you ran whisper on an audio/video file and now you just have a transcript blob… it’s never been easier to automate all of this stuff and get accurate results. You can even have humans in the loop still to protect against hallucinations, or use one model to validate another (ask GPT to correct or flag issues with a whisper transcript)

I'd built a bot to use ChatGPT from Telegram (this was before the ChatGPT API), and currently building a tool to help make writing easier (https://www.penpersona.com https://www.penpersona.com). This is the API. Apart from that, it's pretty much replaced 80% of my search engine usage, I can ask it to collate reviews for a product from reddit and other sites, get the critical reception of a book, etc. You don't have to go and read long posts and articles, have GPT do it for you. There's many other use cases like this. For the second part, I'm using a UI called Typing Mind (which also works with the API).

toyg 3y ago
> currently building a tool to help make writing easier That's cool! > it's pretty much replaced 80% of my search engine usage That's not cool. That's how you end up relying on nonexisting sources or other hallucinations.
- Karunamon 3y ago
  As opposed to raw information surfaced by the search engine, which we all know is perfectly reliable, unbiased, and up to date? That aside, this particular admonishment was worn out a couple of months after ChatGPT was released. It does not need to be repeated every time someone mentions doing something interesting with an LLM.
- asaddhamani 3y ago
  > That's not cool. That's how you end up relying on nonexisting sources or other hallucinations. I have integrated a search engine plugin and a web browsing plugin, which means I don't have to do the search, for example I can ask it to compare the battery life of 3 phones, it'll do 3 searches, might open couple of reddit threads too, then give me the info that I need. It's miles ahead of the current experience with search engines.

williamcotton 3y ago

Retrieving the non-metadata titles of 45,000 various PDF, docx, etc. without a bunch of rules/regexs that would fail half the time. “Derp derp, hallucinations”. Eh, no, not in practice, not when the entire context and document is provided and the tools are used correctly.

code_runner 3y ago

Summarizing large documents. Finding relationships between two (or more) documents. Building a set of points bridging the gap between the documents. Correcting malformed text data. Not everything is just data in a database or some structured format. Sometimes you have blobs of text from a user, or maybe you ran whisper on an audio/video file and now you just have a transcript blob… it’s never been easier to automate all of this stuff and get accurate results. You can even have humans in the loop still to protect against hallucinations, or use one model to validate another (ask GPT to correct or flag issues with a whisper transcript)