I'm also using it to help with my studies. My favourite instruction is 'explain it like I'm 12' - because it uses simplified language to explain concepts that my textbooks made seem impossibly complicated.
I'm aware of both the limitations (extreme bias, timescale of existing information isn't current, etc.) and the concerns from institutions, but I'm loving it!
I must be the only person in the world that's not had a play with it yet.
My manager suggested taking a look at it. I work with a bit of C++ for numerical simulations, python for data visualization, and MySQL for the boring work of keeping databases running.
Have not played with the new toy, but I think Google/Bing work fine as long as you know what you’re looking for. When I have problems, I’ve found it takes 90% of effort to make the right question/search. Not sure how the new toy will take the job of making the right question for me. The above mentioned pieces of code are aimed at very specific tasks in my team’s workflow, so not sure…how the AI can read my mind or learn about how my team works.
Then…data security. If you have an interesting job, don’t use the thing:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/…eaked_its_own/
My impression is that VCs are on a rush to find bagholders to buy their equity on useless AI solutions before next crisis hits and the valuation of useless solutions matches their real potential. That’s why mass media is pushing the narrative of AI being awesome at everything.
Of course, there’s potential in the technology but nothing related to your favorite newspaper columnist that 1 week writes about AI, week before climate change, and on two weeks about war in Ukraine. Please, don’t read or listen to your favorite columnist/opinion maker
This right here - I like the interactive nature of it because oftentimes I don't know what I should be asking / looking for. For me, that's the selling point of AI over traditional search engines.
Maybe it's just afraid I'll ask it something too bloody complicated so it's little AI brain has learned to pretend it's busy.
Oops!
Our systems are a bit busy at the moment,
please take a break and try again soon.
This is worth a read for ideas on how to leverage ChatGPT
Not only does the paid service get you priority in getting access, more importantly it buys you access to the GPT4 engine, which gives considerably better results.
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Simply amazing what one can do with AI!
https://www.boredpanda.com/slumdog-m…ign=Newsletter
Being lazy I asked chatgpt to do it for me. I got some elegantly presented material with references quoted.. but it was all factually WRONG!
I challenged chatgpt about this and got the digital equivalent of a shrug "Im sorry I made a mistake" nothing more.
My only advice; use with caution
I'm sure everyone here has stories of factual mistakes from books, teachers, professors, news, professionals, academics, google....
For quick information (although I have seen some mistakes as well), it is a welcome change now that google is SEM/SEO'd into uselessness. Even reddit searches are losing their value.
I wanted to open a new thread about this topic and now gladly I’ve seen this existing thread.
The topic is truely highly interesting and involves, beside absolute good ideas, even hight risk when miss used. And this will happen earlier or later for sure. From who, we will see.
Auto-GPT: The new tool that gives you a peek into the AI future | This World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4s0ESJXOrQ
Also interesting is this one, which is still with “ChatGPT”:
ChatGPT can predict stock market moves
(3 min read . Updated: 17 Apr 2023, 10:05 PM IS)
https://www.livemint.com/market/stoc…748689794.html
Palme
AI can help you to win the Sony World Photography Award, or kickstart a debate about technology and photography.
About as useful as sand in a desert.
It makes some mistakes occasionally now but in the main it generates novel
Content which is good enough. Customer service, first line contact centres, help desks, journalism are the first under the hammer. More will follow.
Ideas like ‘it won’t take my job because I’m just so irreplaceable’ are completely missing the point. It’s already cleverer than you are, or will be, and it will get better exponentially.
A year from now the world will be different.