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Completely irrelevant if it will hallucinate the next time you use it. A broken clock is useful twice a day too, but it’s also worthless.

by xk_id 3y ago

CamperBob2 3y ago
You need to spend some time actually using a current-generation GPT. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
hyperman1 3y ago
I think this is too harsh. It is technology with good uses but also limitations, just like all other technology. I'd say use it, but don't trust it fully. Hallucination seems a consequence of it being incapable to say: I don't know. Messy code is a problem with good enough answers to make it less of a risk to go completely of the rails. Also, weirdly, you can ask it to look critically at its own answer, and give edge cases. But at the end of the day, I am responsible for the SQL, not ChatGPT. I have to look over the response, test it,... A non-trivial amount of time. ChatGPT is a great tool but not magic. See also the now infamous case of the lawyer with the hallucinated precedents. It is a good idea for a lawyer to let ChatGPT do some research. But what went wrong was the validation: Someone should have looked up the cited case law, and noticed they were hallucinations. This is misuse of a good but not perfect tool.
MattPalmer1086 3y ago
This only makes sense if you are thinking of these tools as replacements for people. If you see them as a force multiplier, something that makes many tasks much more efficient, then, it is not irrelevant. My own experience in using them like the author to get fully working code with libraries I was not familiar with demonstrates this to my satisfaction. It didn't get everything right on the first try, but I managed to try out 4 different libraries, with gpt rewriting the code for each to get more or less the same results in less than a day. Would have taken me at least 2 or 3 days without it.
- xk_id 3y ago
  > If you see them as a force multiplier Gambling on a random generator because you don’t want to spend time improving your skills is not a “force multiplier”.
  - MattPalmer1086 3y ago
    If the "random" generator is biased towards the right answer 9 times out of 10, then you save time on boring tasks which are not useful, and you can spend the time you save on developing more interesting skills.

Completely irrelevant if it will hallucinate the next time you use it. A broken clock is useful twice a day too, but it’s also worthless.

by xk_id 3y ago

Completely irrelevant if it will hallucinate the next time you use it. A broken clock is useful twice a day too, but it’s also worthless.

CamperBob2 3y ago

You need to spend some time actually using a current-generation GPT. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

hyperman1 3y ago

I think this is too harsh. It is technology with good uses but also limitations, just like all other technology. I'd say use it, but don't trust it fully. Hallucination seems a consequence of it being incapable to say: I don't know. Messy code is a problem with good enough answers to make it less of a risk to go completely of the rails. Also, weirdly, you can ask it to look critically at its own answer, and give edge cases. But at the end of the day, I am responsible for the SQL, not ChatGPT. I have to look over the response, test it,... A non-trivial amount of time. ChatGPT is a great tool but not magic. See also the now infamous case of the lawyer with the hallucinated precedents. It is a good idea for a lawyer to let ChatGPT do some research. But what went wrong was the validation: Someone should have looked up the cited case law, and noticed they were hallucinations. This is misuse of a good but not perfect tool.

MattPalmer1086 3y ago

This only makes sense if you are thinking of these tools as replacements for people. If you see them as a force multiplier, something that makes many tasks much more efficient, then, it is not irrelevant. My own experience in using them like the author to get fully working code with libraries I was not familiar with demonstrates this to my satisfaction. It didn't get everything right on the first try, but I managed to try out 4 different libraries, with gpt rewriting the code for each to get more or less the same results in less than a day. Would have taken me at least 2 or 3 days without it.

xk_id 3y ago
> If you see them as a force multiplier Gambling on a random generator because you don’t want to spend time improving your skills is not a “force multiplier”.
- MattPalmer1086 3y ago
  If the "random" generator is biased towards the right answer 9 times out of 10, then you save time on boring tasks which are not useful, and you can spend the time you save on developing more interesting skills.