Not directly. testrigor.com helps me to write test automation. They use GPT to generate tests based on test description
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#722I use it to motivate myself for trivial tasks such as setting up systemd, cron, dockerfiles, nginx, apache, etc. It cannot finish the job, but it feels very cyberpunk and makes me want to complete menial tasks.
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#723Example ways I have used it:
-Generate interview questions for a [software engineer, product owner, etc.] candidate
-Come up with names for a program/initiative that represent the essence of that program / are creative and pithy
-Discover the limitations of various optimization algorithms (e.g., COBYLA). Cross-referenced this answer w/other sources but it was a useful start.
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#724I noticed my productivity with GPT was closely tied to how quickly I could access it. For example, Copilot is so useful to me because it's directly integrated into the browser. So I decided to build a Spotlight Search-esque interface to GPT that I could access anywhere [1]. It's been useful in answering quick questions or drafting documents. [1] https://github.com/JinayJain/gpt-anywhere
Is this an electron app?
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#725For coding, I've been using it like Stack Overflow. It really decreases my barrier to doing work because I can ask lazy follow-up questions. For example, I might start out by asking it a question about a problem with Pandas like "How do I select rows of a dataframe where a column of lists of strings contains a string?". After that, GPT realizes I'm talking about Pandas, and I'm allowed to ask lazy prompts like "how d…
I find it is like having a brilliant intern that is not super consistent in taking their antipsychotic medication
This statement nicely describes my experience with LLMs. They may have a hard time staying on topic (especially with larger untuned models like LLaMA 13B+), but if you help them stay on track, they become very useful.
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#726Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even with that caveat, using GPT in this way is still useful. The amount of time spent to simply ask GPT-4 is a lot lower than to search StackOverflow, and while this problem is so basic that the first result often works, once one gets into complex problems that massively benefit from input context, I think GPT-4 would save massive amounts of time.
Since you're gonna have to search Stackoverflow anyway to verify that ChatGPT didn't hallucinate garbage, I'm very dubious that it actually saves any time, let alone "massive" amounts of it.
Just ask it to write unit tests for you and run the code to see if it's garbage. Faster than trying to verify by looking through the sources
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#727I 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.…
You can self-host LLAMA, though it's obviously much worse in terms of performance, it's still good enough to be useful for some things.
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#728Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm hugely curious why people are so worried that some AI has access to some thoughts of yours? Do you think you are somehow special? Just create a burner account and ask it what you want, everything it gets told, it's seen thousands of times over, does chatGPT or some data scientist somewhere really care that there is someone somewhere that is struggling with body issues, struggling in a relationship or struggling t…
> does chatGPT or some data scientist somewhere really care that there is someone somewhere that is struggling with body issues, struggling in a relationship or struggling to find meaning in there lives? Not the tool nor data scientists, but advertisers are salivating at the chance to even further improve their microtargetted campaigns. If they can deliver ads to you for a specific product _at the moment you need it_…
I block all ads anyway
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#729Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? What are your arguments against AI in this scenario?
AI is not trained to identify disorders, nor is it trained to alleviate them / help the affected person cope with them. Ditto re. trauma.
Most human therapists are pretty incompetent tbh. It usually takes a few tries to find a good one.
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#730I use it for finding description of the products that I have to upload to the website of the company where I'm doing practices.
So interesting because y used to give chatgpt tips to find the specific results that I want