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30 Nov 2022 release https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not much impact personally. I just read all the terrible implications of it online. Pressure in the professional world to use it, though fuck if I know what to use it for in this job. I don't like using it for my writing because I don't want to rely on something like that and because it's prone to errors.

Wish something that used a ton of resources would actually have a great impact to make it worth the waste.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I do a lot of coding and I'm in a similar boat. My co-worker and I can't really come up with a use case due to our particular work loads

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's my rubber duck/judgement free space for Homelab solutions. Have a problem: chatgpt and Google it's suggestions. Find a random command line: chatgpt what does this do.

I understand that I don't understand it. So I sanity check everything going in and coming out of it. Every detail is a place holder for security. Mostly, it's just a space to find out why my solutions don't work, find out what solutions might work, and as a final check before implementation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It is extremely useful for suggesting translations and translating unclear foreign language sentences

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How do you know the output is an accurate translation?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's really fun and helpful for character development, writing, and worldbuilding.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Been using Copilot instead of CharGPT but I'm sure it's mostly the same.

It adds comments and suggestions in PRs that are mostly useful and correct, I don't think it's found any actual bugs in PRs though.

I used it to create one or two functions in golang, since I didn't want to learn it's syntax.

The most use Ive gotten out of it is to replace using Google or Bing to search. It's especially good at finding more obscure things in documentation that are hard to Google for.

I've also started to use it personally for the same thing. Recently been wanting to startup the witcher 3 and remembered that there was something missable right at the beginning. Google results were returning videos that I didn't want to watch and lists of missable quests that I didn't want to parse through. Copilot gave me the answer without issue.

Perhaps what's why Google and Ms are so excited about AI, it fixes their shitty search results.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps what’s why Google and Ms are so excited about AI, it fixes their shitty search results.

Google used to be fantastic for doing the same kinds of searches that AI is mediocre at now, and it went to crap because of search engine optimization and their AI search isn't any better. Even if AI eventually improves for searching, search AI optimization will end up trashing that as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

My broken brain thinks up of a lot of dumb questions about science, history, and other topics. I use it all the time to answer those. Especially if it's a question that's a nuisance to lookup on Wikipedia (though I still love Wikipedia). I like ChatGPT because of the interactive nature of it. And I often have dumb follow-up questions for it.

It has also been a huge help when I get stuck of a coding or scripting task. Both at work and at home.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

It has helped tremendously with my D&D games. It remembers past conversations, so world building is a snap.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Some of my coworkers show me their chatGPT generated drivel. They seem to be downright proud of that, like they would be gaming the system by using chatGPT instead of using their own head. However I think their daily work seems to consist of unnecessary corpo crap and they should really be fired and replaced with chatGPT.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I am going to say that so far it hasn't done that much for me. I did originally ask it some silly questions, but I think I will be asking it for questions about coding soon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's made our marketing department even lazier than they already were

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Work wise no impact so far but I use it to write any bullshit corpo speak emails , tidy up CVs and for things like game cheats etc. Its banned now in my job and we have to use copilot but I dont cause it will send everything back to the company so if I need it I just use chatgpt it on my personal one and email it to my work one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Main effect is lots of whinging on Lemmy. Other than that, minimal impact.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I've had it improve grammar on some legal documents I had to submit and also generate a safety plan for a specific job I was working on. It did both of those things ok but I still had to edit and delete sections that weren't relevant

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not much. Every single time I asked it for help, it or gave me a recursive answer (ex: If I ask "how do I change this setting?" It answers: by changing this setting), or gave me a wrong answer. If I can't already find it on a search engine, then it's pretty useless to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It gave me a starting point for a terms of reference document for a Green Champions group that I set up at work. That is the only beneficial thing that I can recall.

I have tried to find other uses, but so far nothing else has actually proven up to scratch. I expect that I could have spent more time composing and tweaking prompts and proofreading the output, but it takes as long as writing the damned documents myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

my face hurts from all the extra facepalms

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I love using it for writing scripts that need to sanitize data. One example I had a bash script that looped through a csv containing domain names and ran AXFR lookups to grab the DNS records and dump into a text file.

These were domains on a Windows server that was being retired. The python script I had Copilot write was to clean up the output and make the new zone files ready for import into PowerDNS. Made sure the SOA and all that junk was set. Pdns would import the new zone files into a SQL backend.

Sure I could've written it myself but I'm not a python developer. It took about 10 minutes of prompting, checking the code, re-prompting then testing. Saved me a couple hours of work easy.

I use it all the time to output simple automation tasks when something like Ansible isn't apropos

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It helps me tremendously with language studies, outside of that I have no use for it and do actively detest the unethical possibilities of it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Friends and I have had a good laugh writing rap battles or poems about strangely specific topics, but that's about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A game changer in helping me find out more about topics that have wisdom buried in threads of forum posts. Great to figure out things I have only fuzzy ideas or vague keywords that might be inaccurate. Great at explaining things that I can follow up on questions about details. Great at finding equations I need but I do not trust it one bit to do the calculations for me. Latest gen also gives me sources on request so I can double check and learn more directly from the horse's mouth.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have only used it a few times, but it was amazing for my need. I work in IT so I'm not the best with writing. I enjoy working on projects and configuring new technology, servers, and applications for the company. What i don't enjoy is figuring out how to write communication emails to the company about what we're doing. So everytme I needed a write up informing people of what's happening and it's benefits, I used it to quickly write up something. Was it perfect? No, I had to edit some stuff of course. What it did do is create the entire structure and everything that needed to be said in the style of some corporate HR email. It would take me hours to type out something like this so for this to do it all in 2 minutes and me taking 5 minutes to look it over was amazing! Outside of this I haven't really used it much.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's a neat tool for very specific language-related tasks.
For example, it can translate a poem so that the translation still rhymes.
Its main strength is not its ability to write, but to read. It's the first time in human history where you can pose any question to a computer in human language, and expect to get a meaningful reply.
As long as that question isn't asking for facts or knowledge.
It's also useful for "tip of my tongue" queries, where the right Google search term is exactly what you're missing.

All of its output is only usable and useful if you already know the facts about what you're asking, and can double-check for hallucinations yourself.

However, on a societal scale, it's a catastrophy on par with nuclear war.
It will consume arbitrary amounts of energy, right at the most crucial time when combatting climate change might still have been possible.
And it floods everyone's minds with disinfo, while we're at the edge of a global resurgance of fascism.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The most impact it has is in my work life. I do design reviews and suddenly AI/ML projects became priorities and stuff has to be ready for the next customer showcase, which is tomorrow. One thing I remember from a conference I attended was an AI talk where the presenter said something along the lines of: If you think devs are bad with testing code in production, wait till you meet data scientists who want to test using live data.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Super useful when I have a half-baked idea or concept that I want to learn more about, but don't know the lingo. I can explain the idea and it'll give me terms to search.

Also, it gives pretty good ideas for debugging or potential fixes.

Not sure i'd ever "trust with my life", but it's a useful tool if you use it right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

For me?

Nothing, other than "I tried it with ChatGPT" before they bothered with Documentation.

Fuck anyone who skips documentation

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