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Well I have yet to have been provided a specific example that matches the hyperbolic descriptions people are throwing around. I simply tried to find my own exam

by bmitc 3y ago

Well I have yet to have been provided a specific example that matches the hyperbolic descriptions people are throwing around. I simply tried to find my own examples, and as is my experience with ChatGPT, it is nearly completely worthless. And then I get told that I'm using it wrong, asking it too niche of questions, and to reset my expectations. I'm still waiting for the concrete examples that back up the above commentary about how much of a gamechanger it is. > I've essentially got 15-20 high-priced world-class consultants in every field that I chose to pull from, working at my beck and call In other words, this comment from above needs backing up. I've seen such descriptions everywhere but no one has ever provided examples that corroborate this.

moralestapia 3y ago
Agree with you, why hasn't someone show a useful prompt or an example of it in more than 8 hours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. For me, personally, it has replaced Google Search for the type of query that looks like initial research on a specific subject. "What is X?" then ask a couple follow up questions and I can quickly get a rough idea of some subject that I happen to need at the moment.
stevesearer 3y ago
I am decent at writing PHP/WordPress with a basic working knowledge of some js/jQuery. I wanted to use my GPX files to generate my own private hiking/running log. With basically zero knowledge specific of GPX files, D3.js, or mapbox before starting I was able to quickly write a plugin that displays a path on a mapbox map as well as generates an elevation profile. It would have taken me so long to do this before by googling and reading documentation with trial and error I would have stopped the project. Now I have a working system.
lucideer 3y ago
I have yet to have been provided a specific example that matches the hyperbolic descriptions people are throwing around. > > I've essentially got 15-20 high-priced world-class consultants in every field that I chose to pull from, working at my beck and call I'll give you that: many of the claims are hyperbolic & ridiculous, including that particular one by the gp. The only way I can think of that statement being remotely true is if "high-priced" has no bearing on the quality of work of those consultants (though tbh that is often the case in reality). Personally I have not found ChatGPT particularly good at anything I need to do. I have however found it very passable at many things I don't enjoy doing. It's reporting boilerplate is far more tailored & novel than anything I could ever put into a reusable reporting template. I dread writing reports: it's not a technical challenge for me but I gain no stimulus from it, so reducing the task to one where I just have to heavily edit something ChatGPT prepared for me is frankly incredible. The same goes for formal cold-call emails to people I don't know: another menial, unpleasant but necessary task. It's also great at spitballing, and - as others have mentioned - quick shallow topic summaries of things you'd normally rely on a quick google & scan to get a quick topic summary (timely as Google gets worse and worse). These are microgains throughout your day, nothing truly revolutionary, but that's the case for many successful tech we take for granted.

by bmitc 3y ago

moralestapia 3y ago

Agree with you, why hasn't someone show a useful prompt or an example of it in more than 8 hours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. For me, personally, it has replaced Google Search for the type of query that looks like initial research on a specific subject. "What is X?" then ask a couple follow up questions and I can quickly get a rough idea of some subject that I happen to need at the moment.

stevesearer 3y ago

I am decent at writing PHP/WordPress with a basic working knowledge of some js/jQuery. I wanted to use my GPX files to generate my own private hiking/running log. With basically zero knowledge specific of GPX files, D3.js, or mapbox before starting I was able to quickly write a plugin that displays a path on a mapbox map as well as generates an elevation profile. It would have taken me so long to do this before by googling and reading documentation with trial and error I would have stopped the project. Now I have a working system.

lucideer 3y ago

I have yet to have been provided a specific example that matches the hyperbolic descriptions people are throwing around. > > I've essentially got 15-20 high-priced world-class consultants in every field that I chose to pull from, working at my beck and call I'll give you that: many of the claims are hyperbolic & ridiculous, including that particular one by the gp. The only way I can think of that statement being remotely true is if "high-priced" has no bearing on the quality of work of those consultants (though tbh that is often the case in reality). Personally I have not found ChatGPT particularly good at anything I need to do. I have however found it very passable at many things I don't enjoy doing. It's reporting boilerplate is far more tailored & novel than anything I could ever put into a reusable reporting template. I dread writing reports: it's not a technical challenge for me but I gain no stimulus from it, so reducing the task to one where I just have to heavily edit something ChatGPT prepared for me is frankly incredible. The same goes for formal cold-call emails to people I don't know: another menial, unpleasant but necessary task. It's also great at spitballing, and - as others have mentioned - quick shallow topic summaries of things you'd normally rely on a quick google & scan to get a quick topic summary (timely as Google gets worse and worse). These are microgains throughout your day, nothing truly revolutionary, but that's the case for many successful tech we take for granted.