ChatGPT is amazing.
58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
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Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#22I'm curious what the distribution is with relation to how it is being used.
All the teachers at wife’s school use it like crazy to help with writing crazy long report card comments for students. Usually a 40 hour task 6-8 times a year. School requires multiple paragraphs per student.
I can't shake the feeling that we're going to pad everything with GPT-generated filler text only for other people to use GPT to distill the text again into a consumable summary, from websites to emails to, apparently, teacher evaluations.
In some situations, there are social norms to be respected, but often the content rather than the form matters. So not a condolences card from your employer's HR department, but a report on how a student is doing and how to potentially improve. Does it actually help to write five keywords and have GPT fill it out to such a crazy long report card with no meaning beyond five keywords?
Edit: Or do the teachers just rant a bunch to GPT (or feed it other kind of data, like from a report log like my old high school had) and then ask it to nicely format, professionalize, and remove redundant points? There I would see a beneficial use.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#23> This survey was conducted among 10,701 U.S. adults from March 13 to 19, 2023
Very possible this stat has increased in the last two months, would be interested to see the trend here
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#24Wow that is significantly more than I would have guessed. Fun little comparison, it took until 1996 for 14% of North Americans to have used the internet. https://ourworldindata.org/internet
Not everyone had a computer at that time either. They would need a computer, or access to one for free in their spare time that had the hardware and ability to get online.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#25And 99% of VCs have climaxed to ChatGPT.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
All the teachers at wife’s school use it like crazy to help with writing crazy long report card comments for students. Usually a 40 hour task 6-8 times a year. School requires multiple paragraphs per student.
I can't shake the feeling that we're going to pad everything with GPT-generated filler text only for other people to use GPT to distill the text again into a consumable summary, from websites to emails to, apparently, teacher evaluations. In some situations, there are social norms to be respected, but often the content rather than the form matters. So not a condolences card from your employer's HR department, but a r…
Its like a game of telephone, only using a supercomputer and all the energy it needs.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#27And 99% of VCs have climaxed to ChatGPT.
Just wait for the flood of hedge funds that use "next generation ai-driven modelling" thats actually just a 23 year old fresh out of school typing into chatgpt what stocks to pick with their clients money for today.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#28> This survey was conducted among 10,701 U.S. adults from March 13 to 19, 2023 Very possible this stat has increased in the last two months, would be interested to see the trend here
What I find makes it a lot more accessible is third party sites that don't require you to identify with personal information before you're allowed to use it. These seem to be popping up more and more and lets me feel like I can talk without it being added to a permanent record somewhere. Sure, you can subpoena my ISP and get the IP+datetime turned into a subscriber, but that's different from tying it all to my phone number that hasn't changed since I was eight.
Another lesson I might draw is that I need more burner phones, but it gets tedious to queue up for 20 minutes to activate your prepaid SIM via a government ID in this democratic country. Had to verify six numbers for work once because a BigCorp which shall not be named couldn't internally arrange accounts for us to do the desired audit on their systems. Annoying, but we billed them per hour at security consultancy rates (and the client apparently found that worth it) so that's not the same as having to do this to use an online bot.
On the other hand, these third parties might also muddle any survey results that ask about ChatGPT specifically, when people use something like a virtual career coaching site without realizing this was "Open"AI they were using.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#29I wonder how many have paid for access to GPT-4. GPT-4 was a total game changer for me.
It's great but the usage limit is crazy to me. Sometimes I need to use lots of small messages, and run through them way too quickly
A trick is to combine a number of questions into one prompt. It can carry on multiple threads. You can also ask 3.5 first, and reserve 4 for the tough stuff.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#30I'm curious what the distribution is with relation to how it is being used.
All the teachers at wife’s school use it like crazy to help with writing crazy long report card comments for students. Usually a 40 hour task 6-8 times a year. School requires multiple paragraphs per student.
This seems so dangerous and this was my fear. Things will become meaningless especially in education.