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My wife is doing online classes for fun, and is using Deep Research to help her find citations and sources, then using 4.5 and the edit feature to get a tone th
by wincy 2y ago
My wife is doing online classes for fun, and is using Deep Research to help her find citations and sources, then using 4.5 and the edit feature to get a tone that sounds like her and not at all like ChatGPT. She says she can accomplish in an hour what would have taken days. So far the feedback has been extremely positive. We’ve decided to extend the ChatGPT Pro subscription for another month we’re liking it so much.
- pton_xd 2y ago> to help her find citations and sources, then using 4.5 and the edit feature to get a tone that sounds like her and not at all like ChatGPT. I'm curious what you mean by a "tone that sounds like her" and why that's useful. Is this for submitting homework assignments? Or is note reviewing more efficient if it sounds like you wrote it?
- wincy 2y agoThat’s a great question? I guess she just wrote it for fun and submitted it to the school paper? She’s having a great time and I’m glad for her, though.
- what 2y agoShe’s paying to take online courses (for fun, apparently) and paying for an AI to do all the work. She’s not learning anything and the courses must not be that fun.
- bitshiftfaced 2y agoNo judgement here. I'm just trying to understand what is even the point of taking a class for fun if you just delegate the coursework to AI.
- farts_mckensy 2y agoSounds a bit judgy to me
- piyh 2y agoI build websites for fun and delegate large portions of it to LLMs. Doesn't make it less fun.
- bitshiftfaced 2y agoYeah ok, I get not wanting to do the grunt work. I take classes for fun. But if it's not for a credential and I don't want to do coursework, I'm just going to buy a textbook.
- wincy 2y agoI don’t know she’s effusive about it. She’s going to get her article published in the paper. She’s been calling sources and talking to people and getting the scoop. I guess the only way to be a journalist these days for local issues is to pay to go to journalism school.
- jostylr 2y agoImagine if you are already a great writer, but want to learn more about asking questions, coming up with interesting angles. Then collaborating with an AI that does the grunt work seems a natural fit. You may also want to improve editing skills rather than writing skills. By saving time and energy on not writing, editing may become something that there is more time to really get good at. In other courses, curiosity rather than mastery may be what is relevant. So again asking questions and getting somewhat reliable answers that skepticism should be applied to could be of great benefit. Obviously, if you want to get good at something that the AI is doing, then one needs to do the work first though the AI could be a great work questioner. The current unreliability could actually be an asset for those wishing to use it to learn in partnership with, much like working with peers is helpful because they may not be right either in contrast to working with someone who has already mastered a subject. Both have their places, of course.
- leetharris 2y agoDoesn't this defeat the entire purpose of doing online classes for fun? You use an AI to look everything up, write in your tone, and be done in a fraction of the time? So you're paying for online classes to learn, then paying $200/month for AI to do the online classes for you that you chose for fun?
- 12345hn6789 2y agoShe's paying a school for courses and then paying an AI company to do her homework?
- grey-area 2y agoPresumably it’s a means to an end. The GAI produces convincing replicas of real journalism (who cares if facts are wrong or quotes/citations made up), she gains an online qualification and can get a job at a more prestigious publication?
- dwb 2y agoPointless, unless you’re a cynic and don’t mind relying on LLMs for the work you’ve “studied” for. Doing the work yourself is the entire point.