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ChatGPT is very useful for me to the point that I pay subscription fee. To me it IS the product.
by FpUser 2y ago
ChatGPT is very useful for me to the point that I pay subscription fee. To me it IS the product.
- 8organicbits 2y agoI haven't found a use for it. What do you use it for?
- guywithahat 2y agoI use it to auto generate responses to ridiculous rhetorical questions on hacker news
- FpUser 2y agoFor many things in general for IT related tasks in particular. a) Write me shell script which does this and that. b) what Linux command with what arguments do I call to do such and such thing. c) Write me a function / class in language A/B/C that does this and that d) write me a SQL query that does this and that e) use it as a reference book for any programming language or whatever other subject. etc. etc. The answers sometimes come out wrong and / or does contain non trivial bugs. Being experienced programmer I usually have no problems spotting those just by looking at generated code or running test case created by ChatGPT. Alternatively there are no bugs but the approach is inefficient. In this case point explaining why it is inefficient and what to use instead ChatGPT will fix the approach. Basically it saves me a shit ton of time.
- 8organicbits 2y agoDo you have any strategy for prompting? I've found I need to spend a lot of effort coaxing it to understand the problem. Hallucinations were pretty common, and it lead me down a couple believable but non-viable paths. Like coding an extension for Chrome, but doing things the permission system will not allow.
- t-writescode 2y agoI find it to be orders of magnitude more helpful at getting me started on the research journey when I don't know how to formulate the question of what I'm researching. I find it useful for: * throwing ideas at a wall and rubber-ducking my emotional state and feelings. * creating silly, meme images in strange circumstances, sometimes. * answering simple "what's the name of that movie / song / whatever" questions Is it always right? Absolutely not. Is it a good starting point? Yes. Think of it like the school and the early days of Wikipedia. "Can I use Wikipedia as a source? No. But you can use it to find primary sources and use those in your research paper!"
- cm2012 2y agoIt gives amazing medical advice and answers, way better than webmd or frankly even most primary care physicians ive seen.
- danielodievich 2y agoTerrifying. You must like living dangerously.
- the_sleaze_ 2y agoI am lucky enough to have several family members who are MDs and am close to a few more. They google crap all the time. They're as unaware of things as we are. The tests they have access to are much better than anything we can get our hands on though.
- r-zip 2y agoThey are NOT as unaware of things as we are. That’s like someone seeing a software developer googling stuff and saying “see, they don’t know much more than me”. An expert refreshing their knowledge on Google is not the same as a layman learning it for the first time. At all.
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- killerdhmo 2y agoAre you a doctor? On what basis are you evaluating medical advice?
- cm2012 2y agoWhether or not it works!
- darkwater 2y agoHow do you know that? Are you a doctor?
- cm2012 2y agoIt's outrageous at translation. I can set it to record next to my wife and her grandma speaking in Korean, through phone speakers, and it creates a perfect transcription and translation. Insane.
- ausbah 2y agowhat is the delay? i imagine translation specific models would be better?
- cm2012 2y agoLike a minute, it's not real time. You click record, let it transcribe then ask it to translate
- 8organicbits 2y agoHow are you checking that the translation is correct?
- cm2012 2y agoWife is next to me and checks after. Never had a single wrong word.
- kamaal 2y agoEverything! Its like talking to a intelligent person about a topic you want to learn, but they know it good enough to teach you if you keep asking questions.
- 8organicbits 2y agoI've found it to be like talking to someone who pretends to know things, but lacks understanding when you probe further.
- kamaal 2y agoProbe for summarised information, don't outsource your thinking to AI. Like even when you are writing code. Describe the solution and ask AI to write it, don't specify the requirements to AI and hope it will write it.
- alentred 2y agoIt is my new Google, ever since Web Search and the Web itself stopped to work as a source of information. When I look for answers to specific questions, I either search Wikipedia, or ask ChatGPT. "Searching the Internet" doesn't work anymore with all the ADs, pop-ups and "optimized" content that I have to consume before I get to find the answers.
- 8organicbits 2y agoHmm, ChatGPT doesn't seem to provide accurate information often enough to be trustworthy. Have you tried an ad blocker and another search engine like DDG/Bing? Starting with Wikipedia is a good approach too.
- honestjohn 2y agoYeah, ChatGPT itself is amazing. What I don't understand is, why are other companies paying so much for training hardware now? Trying to make more specialized LLMs now that ChatGPT has proven the technology?