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Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by msikora » Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 6:29 PM UTC

williamcotton wrote: post #50

scifibestfi wrote: post #9

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…

"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 finding it a bit hard to communicate the urgency and heaviness of what's going on" "Personally I can give you a formal definition of intelligence and even a number of speculative sketches of how I think it could be implemented, but I will also tell yo…

There is a whole YouTube genre of songs with video where every lyric is a generated image (typically MidJourney). Some of them are pretty cool.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by msikora » Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:16 PM UTC

scottLobster wrote: post #88

gcanyon wrote: post #69

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Re: how sophisticated the code it generates is: I wrote up generating code in a language I'm very familiar with here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W3j5WaFhYZaqSt0ceRQj8j16... tl;dr: in some instances I had to coach it pretty directly to get what I wanted. In other instances it was flawless. And to your point, some of the code it generated was both clearer and faster than the code I would have written for the s…

Sure but this kinda proves my point. It can potentially generate good code for simple, atomic problems. It can't write me a REST service that hooks into an existing web backed spread over multiple repos of proprietary code. Any relationship not visible in the code seems to be outside its capabilities to understand for the moment. I'll be impressed when I can point it at a server cluster and the associated dozen repos…

The problem for us devs is not that it will replace you completely (although that day is coming, but it's at least a decade away). The problem is that as developer productivity increases dramatically this may put pressure on developer job positions, salaries, etc. One hope is that as the price of developing software plummets it will increase demand accordingly so that we won't feel it that much. God knows there is still a ton of areas where software or better software would help out a lot but it is cost prohibitive at the moment. Once we get into robotics basically anything that humans do can be improved with software.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by msikora » Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:22 PM UTC

scottLobster wrote: post #131

ilaksh wrote: post #120

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So you're saying you won't be impressed until it can 100% replace you. Seems like you will have trouble adapting if you decide to wait that long.

More like I'll invest time learning a tool relative to the potential payoff. Right now this tool would be of minimal utility. The vast majority of code I write isn't "make this isolated algorithm more efficient", it's "implement/integrate this new feature into the server cluster". Without deep understanding of the software/server architecture and the ability to derive potential tradeoffs of different approaches, my j…

I use it as an instant StackOverflow for the most part to get around new libraries or libraries/languages I don't use that often. Also generating custom bash one liners or small scripts. It is priceless for this use case. Yeah, sometimes it is wrong, but in my exp. less than 5%. Also we are lucky that for our purposes we can almost always validate the answer almost instantly and without incurring any cost.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by msikora » Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:25 PM UTC

jghn wrote: post #25

scifibestfi wrote: post #9

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.

Yes, this is my use case as well and it is amazing at this. Saves a lot of time.

Re: ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

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Post by msikora » Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:33 PM UTC

rustyminnow wrote: post #40

thomasahle wrote: post #19

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I already fear my productivity drop when OpenAI finally takes ChatGPT offline.

What sorts of things are you using it (successfully) for? I've gotten it to write a script or two for me, but it feels like usually I have to type out so much context (or domain/business knowledge) that it doesn't end up saving much effort.

I use it as an instant StackOverflow for the most part to get around new libraries or libraries/languages I don't use that often. Also generating custom bash one liners or small scripts. It is priceless for this use case. Yeah, sometimes it is wrong, but in my exp. less than 5%. Also we are lucky that for our purposes we can almost always validate the answer almost instantly and without incurring any cost.