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How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Post by cowmix »

I use ChatGPT for a wide variety of tasks throughout my day, but my favorite use case is generating one-off utilities quickly. A recent example of this was when I needed to move and reorganize approximately 1 million files from one hard drive to another over a six-week period. Unfortunately, the destination hard drive began to malfunction – I could access metadata, but file transfers to and from the drive would fail almost immediately.

With ChatGPT's assistance, I was able to create a utility that scanned the 1 million+ files on the faulty destination drive and then re-copied those files from the original source drive to a new destination drive, all while maintaining the updated directory and file structure.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Post by Flowzone »

I'm not in tech like most of y'all. I help out my dad with his consulting company for mostly public agencies. The other day a group we're working with wanted my dad to write some media notes for the unveiling of a project that's been in the works for a while. I gave chatgpt a quick prompt of what the project is, who the audience is, how it's important for a certain demographic and for the community, etc. My dad edited it and sent it over to the leader of this group for his speech the next day. Even though it was edited, I laughed because a chatgpt quote that wasn't edited made it on to the government's website for a pretty big announcement.

Other than that I used it this morning while editing a report we hired a team to create. It was helpful to reword some sentences that weren't very clear before sending it off to the client.

Other than that, I mostly use it to brainstorm ideas/give me related concepts to something I'm working on.

Also, not work related, but last week I used chatgpt to create an opening message for a dating app. I knew the gist of a joke I wanted to say related to this woman's interests, but had chatgpt word it for me. There was a lot more to our conversations, but she did at least respond to the opener and we got the conversation rolling. We actually went on a date this weekend, where I had to rely on my own brain's inefficient language model! It went pretty well though.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Post by cowmix »

throwoutway wrote: post #40

Not allowed, because the privacy is non-existant, the licensing is questionable, Microsoft sees everything, and the responses are often wrong and require more work to verify. The risks are greater than the reward.

Anything I put into ChatGPT I scrub the crap out of. I'm sure in the near future MSFT/OpenAI will figure out my redactions but until then...

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Post by adam »

We run a public crowdsourced forecasting site for the government here: https://inferpub.com. For our various stakeholders, we're using ChatGPT to summarize forecaster's rationales for their probabilistic forecast. We ask it to both summarize the arguments for the event happening, and against. We still need a human in the loop given who the information it's going to, but it's been an excellent starting point.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Post by presentation »

felipefar wrote: post #24

I don't use it, it returns mostly incorrect code that makes me realize it's not worth it. I'm more productive and write better code ignoring ChatGPT 95% of the time.

I find it is really useful for giving me a base to start from, especially when it’s writing code for tools that I am not very comfortable with. It usually won’t spit out the ultimate solution on the first try, but it can give me an idea of how to modify what it gave to do exactly what I want, in way less time than actually writing it.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Post by markus_zhang »

Asked it to write Python code to dump data from Dataframe to GCS and it wrote a perfect function that I can immediately plug in my class.

Also asked it to write a few commands for BigQuery admin, so far so good but I always double checked due to the nature of those commands.

For my study I asked it to write a C program about processes. It got it almost right except for one place that costed me a while to figure out. But still faster than me banging random stackoverflow doors. It also helps a LOT giving me information of which kernel source code file ti find a random functionality.

My real concern is that I'd rely on it too much whenever I couldn't figure out something. That's fine for work because work is boring anyway and I want to end it asap, but not good for study because I want to grow grit.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Post by gnat »

tatrajim wrote: post #14

Using for academic research. It is especially useful for translating long strings of numbers in classical Chinese sources into Arabic numbers. It's not perfect, but well over 90% accurate and saves much tedium.

I find that when it writes code, I can't trust its output. I handle that by being Grumpy Old Programmer: I eyeball it closely and ask myself about error handling, assumptions, off-by-one errors, is it confusing the 1.1 API with 2.0, is it efficient or naive, and all the other questions that happen in a code review.

So you're pushing 100 Chinese numbers through ChatGPT to get Arabic equivalents. What do you then do to ensure the quality of output is high? Do you eyeball the list and go "hm, seems plausible"? Spot checks? Is there some context around the lists that means erroneous translations will be quite obvious to the trained eye?

I'm always curious what QA looks like in other fields.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Post by SamPatt »

I'm building a p2p AI sharing platform, which runs in browser using webRTC. Basically a glorified chat room where everyone has access to the same AI.

I use it for coding the site but also for creating the user sessions, which right now include a group trivia game and a D&D session, both managed by GPT-4.

I've added in image generation using DALLE (somehow Midjourney still has no API) and it makes for unique sessions each time. With good prompting, it's a fun group experience.

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