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>They're pretty good at generating summaries of text, simple machine translation, generating alternative prose They're not, though. For these tasks they are m

• ch4s3 2y ago
  I disagree strongly. For the two two languages I can read the machine translations are quite good. I wouldn't count on it to faithfully render poetry or subtle elements in literature, but it's great for news articles or reading a form post. For generating alternative prose, what I mean is using a prompt like: given this sentence/paragraph give me 3 alternatives that capture a particular mood/theme/style. Doing that is a great way to try to rewrite flat or repetitive prose or to shake up a bit of writer's block. It's excellent for turning some strung together facts into an email that I can quickly edit into my own voice a bit then send. You may not find that valuable, but I assure you that other people do. Summaries also work pretty well in my experience and for my purposes. I don't need 100% perfection for every big document I come across sometimes I need a paragraph that hits the main idea(s) It's good enough for that and why wouldn't a text prediction tool be good at that?