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If you don't have a way of verifying what the correct answer is, then is there actually a correct answer at all? In many cases, programming included, you don't
by lpapez 3y ago
If you don't have a way of verifying what the correct answer is, then is there actually a correct answer at all?
In many cases, programming included, you don't actually care if it's 100% correct, it is enough to just give you a nudge, show you the way forward, suggest some ideas etc.
If whatever it is you are doing can be verified for correctness, then of course you will check the answer. But for creative pursuits there often is no correct answer, and generative AI (LLMs included) excel at that.
- cageface 3y agoRight. The two areas where I've found current AI to be useful are code generation where I can fairly easily check the results and creative stuff where it doesn't matter. I don't understand how people feel they can use it as a search engine replacement. If you have to go separately check the results then it doesn't seem like it's saving any time. I suspect people are just trusting the output a lot more than they should.
- lpapez 3y agoI do use it primarily as a search engine. Before ChatGPT I had to manually investigate and read through multiple pages of potentially irrelevant stuff to find an answer I could try to verify. If you find an answer on StackOverflow, you still need to integrate and verify it. Now I get an answer straight away just by asking a question, and can skip manual knowledge extraction step to get right on answer verification step (i.e. compiling, testing, extending). Even if ChatGPT is nothing else except a way to fuzzy search and summarize found results, even just that is already hugely helpful and has almost completely replaced Google for me.