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Re: Ask HN: How did ChatGPT4 blew your mind lately?

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Post by comfypotato »

themoonisachees wrote: post #25

I've been automating some of our team's most menial tasks and since we're in a corporate environment we don't have control over what is and isn't installed on our servers, so using bash is the sane default choice. None of the scripts it produced are incredible or whatever (the tasks being more menial than lohic-based), but considering the intricacies of bash and how often I just faceplant into them as an experienced…

Here’s a paper that constitutes the state of the art in this domain in 2018. [1] They trained a model on a corpus, and the results were about 50% accurately executed commands. That’s only single commands (not complete scripts) and you couldn’t go back and forth with NL2Bash to fix mistakes.

I think this is a great example of the strides of LLMs. It’s absolutely leaps and bounds ahead of what was unwieldily cutting edge just 5 years ago.

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/nl2bash-corpus-...

Re: Ask HN: How did ChatGPT4 blew your mind lately?

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Post by paulcole »

noud wrote: post #5

ChatGPT4 blew my mind when I asked it some specific details about my PhD thesis. It was a relative simple question, but you needed to know some domain knowledge to give the correct answer. ChatGPT not only gave a wrong answer, it completely made up a story was beyond repair. It is concerning (blew my mind) how confident ChatGPT can provide a completely wrong answer.

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Re: Ask HN: How did ChatGPT4 blew your mind lately?

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Post by teleforce »

There are a few types of RF receiver architecture and I was asking ChatGPT4 to provide the codes in Mermaid for direct conversion receiver architecture since it does not has support for image generation capability. The provided codes contained some errors when copied/pasted to Mermaid. Then I feedback the errors back to ChatGPT4 it then apologized and duely provided the correct codes that Mermaid can draw the receiver diagram. After that the diagram is fed into Krogi and draw.io for further processing resulting in the direct conversion diagram with editable boxes and texts that is ready to be used or modified with draw.io.

Re: Ask HN: How did ChatGPT4 blew your mind lately?

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Post by goertzen »

It’s extremely under utilized.

Everyone could be producing way more than they currently are.

Everyone could be generating 1 app every 3 hours.

Everyone could be writing entire novels.

Everyone could be writing meaningful Wikipedia articles.

DIY guides should be 100x larger .

Re: Ask HN: How did ChatGPT4 blew your mind lately?

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Post by taf2 »

I was at the beach and used it to write a streaming C++ web server integrating whisper.cpp. I should opensource it eventually, but was like totally amazing since I used to write C++ all the time but it's been like 15 years and was like well i'll use c++20 and sure enough even with a few drinks and a lot of sun the code came together really nicely.

Re: Ask HN: How did ChatGPT4 blew your mind lately?

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Post by taf2 »

noud wrote: post #5

ChatGPT4 blew my mind when I asked it some specific details about my PhD thesis. It was a relative simple question, but you needed to know some domain knowledge to give the correct answer. ChatGPT not only gave a wrong answer, it completely made up a story was beyond repair. It is concerning (blew my mind) how confident ChatGPT can provide a completely wrong answer.

Was it GPT-4 or ChatGPT?

Re: Ask HN: How did ChatGPT4 blew your mind lately?

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Post by jumploops »

I think people are most surprised when using it outside of their own domain.

As an example: I recently showed my mother GPT-4. I asked her what she wanted to see, and having little knowledge of the tool's capabilities, she asked me to surprise her. Apparently I had done this before (with GPT-3), as the poem I generated about Petoskey stones was met with little fanfair: "I've seen it generate poems... what else can it do?"

At that point I showed her a Python file and asked GPT to translate it to Typescript. Needless to say she's not a poet or a programmer, but the fact it could do something like that, entirely outside of her domain, was mind-blowing.

For me, I'm surprised how little I use Google...

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