Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by Rastonbury » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:33 PM UTC

ttul wrote: post #33

I used it to transform cryptic credit card statement items into company names, which then allowed me to query my Gmail archives for receipts and invoices from these vendors, automating a manual process of accounting backup discovery that is the bane of my very existence. I even got GPT-4 to assess whether an email likely relates to an invoice or payment so that I could limit the amount of noise extracted from my emai…

That's pretty cool and interesting, I wonder how it would know credit card statement lines items or if that's in training data. Do you have an example of a cryptic item, like how is it totally unrelated to the purchase

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by sharemywin » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:33 PM UTC

spacebanana7 wrote: post #11

roflyear wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right but you have to be really careful with that use.

Yeah, it only takes a small hallucination to delete emails instead of copy them

Yes, you should look at the code before you run it. and don't run development code on production resources like email addresses.

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by alphadog » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:34 PM UTC

ttul wrote: post #33

I used it to transform cryptic credit card statement items into company names, which then allowed me to query my Gmail archives for receipts and invoices from these vendors, automating a manual process of accounting backup discovery that is the bane of my very existence. I even got GPT-4 to assess whether an email likely relates to an invoice or payment so that I could limit the amount of noise extracted from my emai…

Did you use the API for this, or did you copy and paste into the GUI?

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by qbasic_forever » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:34 PM UTC

ttul wrote: post #31

moralestapia wrote: post #21

It truly seems to be the calculator for text.

It's a calculator for all human knowledge, albeit there are some rounding errors yet to be eliminated.

No, only knowledge that was on the internet and specifically on sites like Reddit that were crawled to train the model. This is definitely not all human knowledge!

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by bolanyo » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:37 PM UTC

Bootvis wrote: post #37

darkwater wrote: post #30

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> Making meal plans: what is being done here? making a list of meals to eat each day of the week? isn't this just a question of thinking what one would like to eat? why is it easier to have the meals chosen by someone else? Do you have children? Meal planning can be a quite tedious and frustrating task if you want to cook at home, eat healthy, eat tasty, vary the dishes and have meals that kids will accept.

In addition, for recipes, it’s just a better Google. If I do “Give me a concise recipe for X” it gives me one. No fluff, no ads. Just ingredients and steps. For example. I asked for pasta carbonara, concise and then even more concise. Final result: Quick Carbonara (4 servings) Ingredients: 12 oz pasta 4 eggs 1 cup cheese 8 oz bacon 4 garlic Salt, pepper Parsley (opt) Cook pasta, save water. Mix eggs, cheese. Fry baco…

Parsley in carbonara?

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:37 PM UTC

13years wrote: post #14

spacebanana7 wrote: post #11

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Yeah, it only takes a small hallucination to delete emails instead of copy them

lol, indeed. As long as the hallucination problem remains, I think we are going to see a significant hype bubble crash within a year or so. Yes, it is still useful under proper guidance, but building things on full automation that are reliable doesn't seem to be something that is actually within realms of reality at present. More innovations will be required for that.

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Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by aoeusnth1 » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:37 PM UTC

qbasic_forever wrote: post #44

ttul wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a calculator for all human knowledge, albeit there are some rounding errors yet to be eliminated.

No, only knowledge that was on the internet and specifically on sites like Reddit that were crawled to train the model. This is definitely not all human knowledge!

We don’t know how many books and academic papers were in the dataset.

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by programmer_dude » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:37 PM UTC

Awesome! It is also fantastic for understanding chunks of Bash script, Perl, AWK etc where if you don't know something then it's next to impossible to search for it using a non-AI search engine.

Bonus: you can also use it to understand what the various flags in a command do.

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by qbasic_forever » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:40 PM UTC

aoeusnth1 wrote: post #47

qbasic_forever wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, only knowledge that was on the internet and specifically on sites like Reddit that were crawled to train the model. This is definitely not all human knowledge!

We don’t know how many books and academic papers were in the dataset.

I can say with absolute certainty they did not include all books with all human knowledge.

For example I suspect chat GPT has zero knowledge of how to speak native American languages that have effectively died with no remaining speakers and no complete written history of their exact usage.

Re: Tell HN: ChatGPT is fantastic for finding and solving issues in logs

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Post by sharemywin » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:40 PM UTC

spacebanana7 wrote: post #16

13years wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol, indeed. As long as the hallucination problem remains, I think we are going to see a significant hype bubble crash within a year or so. Yes, it is still useful under proper guidance, but building things on full automation that are reliable doesn't seem to be something that is actually within realms of reality at present. More innovations will be required for that.

Never underestimate a hype bubble ;) The crypto one lasted for many years with far fewer use cases than LLMs, even accounting for hallucinations.

I never upgraded to pro and I spent like $2 on credits so far this month. I could easily see them hitting a $1b/yr which to me isn't niche market or a hype bubble.