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Look back at crypto and apply the same logic. It "changed everything" if you are part of the money makers, for the average joe nothing changed

I use chatgpt to write code. If it gets a bit better and can connected to an editor to create files, update existing files developer productivity will go through the roof

Is it better than Copilot?

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I'm trying to understand how big of a deal ChatGPT and the like is or isn't. Even people in AI don't seem to agree on whether it's going to change everything or it's overhyped and not a major advancement. Which is it? Or somewhere in the middle? "if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly... i'm findi…

As a programmer, large language models let me solve an increasing range of problems that I couldn't have solved without them. So I think they are a very big deal.

Just one example: parsing structured data out of a big pile of poorly formatted PDF documents.

That used to be too difficult and expensive for me to tackle without a small army of data entry people to help do the work.

Today I can point Textract OCR at it and then use a language model to extract structured data.

(I haven't implemented this particular example just yet, but I'm looking for an opportunity to do so.)

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post #13

I'm trying to understand how big of a deal ChatGPT and the like is or isn't. Even people in AI don't seem to agree on whether it's going to change everything or it's overhyped and not a major advancement. Which is it? Or somewhere in the middle? "if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly... i'm findi…

Look back at crypto and apply the same logic. It "changed everything" if you are part of the money makers, for the average joe nothing changed

I don't understand these comparisons between crypto and generative AI models.

The AI models just seem so clearly and instantly more useful to me.

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look back at crypto and apply the same logic. It "changed everything" if you are part of the money makers, for the average joe nothing changed

I use chatgpt to write code. If it gets a bit better and can connected to an editor to create files, update existing files developer productivity will go through the roof

And we use hammers to hit on nails, you still need a knowledgeable/skilled person to build a proper house though

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I'm trying to understand how big of a deal ChatGPT and the like is or isn't. Even people in AI don't seem to agree on whether it's going to change everything or it's overhyped and not a major advancement. Which is it? Or somewhere in the middle? "if you think AI chatter has reached an annoying level right now you're in for something else. it's going to be the only thing on anybody's mind starting shortly... i'm findi…

I've been using it more and more as a Stackoverflow/Google replacement when working. Sure, it's not always correct, but there's a lot of garbage answers on SO/Google too. But I'm finding it's better at getting me in the right ballpark, and that saves me time.

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My therapist hadn't heard of it yet so I just showed her this (asked it to suggest a CBT therapy program given some patient parameters) and her mind was blown. Especially the effortless creation of an Edgar Allan Poe poem version of it: https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/90f726b409d8c08ecf750288228...

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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post #23
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look back at crypto and apply the same logic. It "changed everything" if you are part of the money makers, for the average joe nothing changed

I don't understand these comparisons between crypto and generative AI models. The AI models just seem so clearly and instantly more useful to me.

> useful to me.

To you yes. Now go out in the real world in which most people don't work in an office and mostly use internet for entertainment

Crypto seemed very useful to many people, and they still do, you'll find thousand upon thousands of comments and this very website preaching cryptos as the next game changer

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use chatgpt to write code. If it gets a bit better and can connected to an editor to create files, update existing files developer productivity will go through the roof

Is it better than Copilot?

Different use case I think. With chatGPT you write something like:

write a function using the python requests library which makes a get request to the URL example.com, parses the JSON response and returns the value of the "foo" field. Throw an exception if the get request fails, the response is not JSON or is invalid JSON, or if the foo field is not present in the response.

I just tried this and got a correct (and reasonable) function on the first try.

This kind of high level description to low-level implementation is a huge timesaver but it saves time in a different way than copilot.

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