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- copy paste (emails for reservations) or type an event or multiple events and ask to convert it into ‘ical’ format. Copy output and save into file, import into you calendar
- convert natural language into json , yaml or other structured text with custom fields
I’ve been actively using it and it’s become my go-to in a lot of cases - Google is more for verification when I smell something off or if it doesn’t have up to date information. Here are some examples: • reviewing contract changes, explaining hard to parse legalese • advice on accounting/tax when billing international clients • visa application • boilerplate django code • learnt all about smtp relays, and requirement…
Can I just say that Im actually become scared reading your comment? Personally I would never ask chatGPT these questions because for me these questions are hard to verify, and knowing how often AI likes to hallucinate.. I just can't trust it. You mentioned 50/50 correctness in domain questions. I can't be sure that other hard to verify questions do not follow these percentage..
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I use it for similar things as GP, and find its strengths to be similar too. ChatGPT hallucinates SVG path attributes. Ask it to make an svg of a unicorn - it will give you markup that looks okay, but if you look at the values of the paths, it's clearly gibberish. (SVG is a particularly interesting case because it's XML on the outside, but several attributes are highly structured, esp g.transform and path.d. Path.d i…
3.5 or 4?
https://github.com/karthink/gptel
In the last couple of weeks I’ve found it really useful chatting through ideas about a parser combinator library I’ve been working on. It also really helped me understand some of the finer points of monad lore. I genuinely don’t mind when it gets things slightly wrong first time, I’ve found the interactive process much more productive and educational than finding half a solution on StackOverflow and then being on my own.
I use it several times a week to extract structured data from chaos. It’s truly excellent at taking a specified template (CSV, JSON or XML) and fleshing it out. Sometimes I do this for test data entirely generatively.
This isn’t a work thing I guess but it’s generated what I think are extremely high quality D&D campaigns to play with my kids who have just started out. Things like that really help increase the amount of quality time you have as a family when you’re busy.
I’ve also tried many things that have failed. I often want help with cryptic crossword clues, sometimes even after giving up and getting the answer I don’t quite understand the construction. But neither does GPT. I have tried to use it to structure parts of my classical history reading but I’ve found it no better than Wikipedia in general and its utter refusal to have opinions about anything is slightly maddening.
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I don't use them either. I've played around with ChatGPT and Copilot a little, and found that they often are subtly, but very confidently wrong in their output when asked to perform a programming task. Sure you could spend ages refining the prompt etc, but its going to be faster to just write the fucking code yourself in the first place most of the time. Then there's the privacy/security concerns...
I really doubt it would be faster to write code manually, even with the state of AI tools today. Even with very sophisticated keyboard macros and traditional autocompletion, someone using GPT would outperform anyone who doesn't. Think of the amount of boilerplate and tests you write, and tedious API documentation lookups you do daily; that all goes away with GPT. The amount of work to double check whether the generat…
It is not just a tool for students to write assignments. In experienced hands it can easily double your productivity.
I use it a lot for Linux administration, troubleshooting, and scripting as well as some programming. I've only recently started using GPT4 and the API so I've only been using the chat interface so far. Examples of some stuff I've asked it just today: - Asked which config files handled sleep mode when lid is closed and kept fixing it and asking for more possible locations until it fixed my issue (going into sleep duri…
>Google is fucked The last year or two have proved to me that they deserve it. Their search engine is utter dogshit now. Ultra commercialised, full of ads, so hard to find a result that is actually what I searched for. Guess that's what Google level greed will do.
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It's replaced Google for the "what's that called" tool. Google used to be good at that task, but it's sucked for the last four years or so. Whenever they gave up on search and leaned into sludge content plus ads. ChatGPT is better than Google ever was anyway.
GPT is better than Google for something like, 'how do I implement nested blog post comments in Flask' And much worse than Google for, "site:miguelgrinberg.com nested comments" Unfortunately I don't know the equivalent of Miguel for everything I need to know, so on average I suppose GPT is better. However it also means that you may never discover the Miguel of your domain!
I might be in the minority here, but I'm not using any AI tools so far, probably to my detriment. I don't trust it with my data, and won't rely on such tools until I can self-host them, and they can be entirely offline. There is some progress in this space, but they're not great yet, and I don't have the resources to run them. I'm hoping that the requirements will go down, or I might just host it on a cloud provider.…
I'm not doing the kind of work that lends itself to AI tools, or at least what I've been focussing on hasn't lent itself to such tools. Not yet.
The places I'd use it are rough drafting in an area where a community of basic people with more knowledge than me could get the job done. For instance, at one point I got Stable Diffusion to generate a bunch of neat album covers in various styles, like I was an art director. Also asked it to draw toys of certain kinds as starting points for game characters. I wanted some prompts.
In my job I quickly get to where I have to start coming up with ideas most people don't think of. That said, I see marketing possibilities: 'this is the category in which I work, tell me what you need out of it'. Then, when you have the thing made, 'this is the thing, why do you want to buy it?'
ChatGPT would be able to answer that. It's least capable of coming up with an idea outside the mainstream, but it ought to be real good at tapping the zeitgeist because that's all it is, really! It's a collective unconscious.
It's ONLY a collective unconscious. Sometimes what you need to do is surprise that collective unconscious, and AI won't be any better at that than you can be. But sometimes you need to frame something to make sense to the collective unconscious, and AI does that quite easily.
If you asked your average person 'what is great art?' they would very likely fall back on something like Greg Rutkowski, rather than say Basquiat. If you ask AI to MAKE art, it can mimic either, but will gravitate towards formulas that express what its collective unconscious approves of. So you get a lot of Rutkowski, and impress a lot of average people.
I just asked it to make an itinerary for a 45 minute long 6 year old boy's soccer practice. It was almost perfect. It needs to be tweaked (3 minutes for cool down?) but it did 95% of the heavy lifting. I also asked it for vacation ideas with nice cabins and trailer hookups with outdoor activities for kids and nice cabins within 200 miles of where I live - it was almost perfect in its response. I have trouble starting…