Has anyone tried using ChatGPT to train their own (albeit substantially less complicated) ML implementations? Is that even a reasonable or practical thing to do?
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For me, ChatGPT also has a psychological benefit. It makes me feel like there’s someone that I can fall back on when I‘m stuck. It might be wrong (often the bot is not super helpful), but this is not about rationality.
I'm finding ChatGPT may be wrong, but it's answers are often enough to point me in the right direction - particularly when I'm working in a new domain where I'm not yet experienced enough to be able to ask google the right questions. Previously I'd fall back to asking in a forum and getting a (tbf) much better answer a few hours or days later, but ChatGPT may be enough to point me in the right direction in a few minu…
I had this happen then I was stuck on a small side project that was slightly out of my wheelhouse.
It wasn’t meaningful enough to spend a lot of time researching or to pay someone to solve it so I was just going to give up on it.
Asked ChatGPT and it was able to unblock me by pointing me in the right direction.
Now I have a working tool to solve a very specific problem of mine.
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I want a 5K 27 inch monitor but they aren’t affordable sans getting an iMac. I did buy my own 28” 4K (and we got my wife a nice 24” 4K) for work, but these are fairly affordable. I wish I could do the same with my laptop, WFH would be better, but it is against security.
Connecting a screen is against security? Or procuring your own 28” laptop is?
The screen is fine, but connecting doing work with something other than the company issued laptop isn't allowed. It isn't really that bad in the winter, but in the summer the fan will go off a lot, a desktop would be quiter, and I would have room for a second large monitor (right now I'm at one large monitory + 16" laptop screen).
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I use my toothbrush every day but I wouldn't pay $20 per month for it. I use my keyboard everyday but I wouldn't pay $20 per month for it. In fact, I paid around $4 total for it, as paying more would bring significantly more diminishing returns. I use my phone every day and have used it for the past 5 years with no issue, it has brought me so much value and yet, if I draw the line, it didn't even reach $20 per month…
Devil's Advocate here... Brushing your teeth takes time. If you could pay $20 p/m to get the same results from say a stick of gum (i.e., no time)...is that then worth it? The KB "as is" makes sense. But that's a fairly generic item. Adding value / differentiation is minimal. Phone? Maybe. Put what's your service p/m? Is one worth considering without the other? What crazy value? At $1 per work day?? It doesn't have to…
> Brushing your teeth takes time. If you could pay $20 p/m to get the same results from say a stick of gum (i.e., no time)...is that then worth it?
No, because I start the kettle (or coffeemaker, depending on what I want) before I start brushing. I brush my teeth while waiting for the kettle to boil.
I don't get that time back if I don't brush my teeth; I still have to wait for the coffee anyway.
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#905I've been using ChatGPT pretty consistently during the workday and have found it useful for open ended programming questions, "cleaning up" rough bullet points into a coherent paragraph of text, etc. $20/month useful is questionable though, especially with all the filters. My "in between" solution has been to configure BetterTouchTool (Mac App) with a hotkey for "Transform & Replace Selection with Javascript". This i…
You use it consistently during the workday and it's still not worth $20/mo?
Considering the cost of the API, no. It's not.
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You use it consistently during the workday and it's still not worth $20/mo?
This is one of those puzzling things to me. You own your life - why not spend your own money for the things that make you and your life better? Who cares? I worked at a job where I had a small, crappy monitor. I made decent cash. I just bought a large decent monitor and brought it into work. I ended up using it for many years. My life was significantly better. I've done that at several jobs since then, and NEVER regr…
He IS spending his own money on something he finds useful-- the OpenAI API. NOT ChatGPT. He gets greater use out of the service, as the API isn't limited in its output the way ChatGPT is (no content filters), AND it's cheaper. Did you even read his comment>?
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#907I've been using ChatGPT pretty consistently during the workday and have found it useful for open ended programming questions, "cleaning up" rough bullet points into a coherent paragraph of text, etc. $20/month useful is questionable though, especially with all the filters. My "in between" solution has been to configure BetterTouchTool (Mac App) with a hotkey for "Transform & Replace Selection with Javascript". This i…
Have you been able to find uses for chatGPT where it’s better than the top result in Google? I’ve consistently found that Google returns similar results. The only difference is that if it’s a longer snippet I need to click into the website, but even then, it’s usually faster than chatGPT.
My only issue is that GPT training set is locked like 1-2 years ago. I often find myself looking for recent stuff in Google.
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#908I've been using ChatGPT pretty consistently during the workday and have found it useful for open ended programming questions, "cleaning up" rough bullet points into a coherent paragraph of text, etc. $20/month useful is questionable though, especially with all the filters. My "in between" solution has been to configure BetterTouchTool (Mac App) with a hotkey for "Transform & Replace Selection with Javascript". This i…
> And it's cheaper than $20/month, Since the $20/month is for priority access to new features and priority access including during high-load times, not API access (a separatr offering not yet available), I don't understand the cost comparison. What you are proposing does not substitute for any part of the $20/month offering over the basic free product.
Oh right. A bunch of "new features" with exactly zero explanation as to what they are and "priority access" when the API responds nearly instantaneously. But keep drinking that kool aid to justify your $20 purchase.
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#909I've been using ChatGPT to respond to GitHub tickets.
For users who don't bother reading the documentation, don't want to try anything by themselves and want personal assistance, it works wonderfully.
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I think there's also an argument to be made that $20 per month is a bigger deal than some people realise. The issue isn't just _that one_ specific subscription you're paying for. The issue is how they all accumulate over time.. and eventually you find that your metaphorical bucket of money has turned into a leaky sieve. Not to mention all the services you forget to unsubscribe from even though they've ceased to provi…
Let's say you make $10 / hr. To break even, a $20 tool needs to save you 2h a month. Divided over 20 workdays and it must save you 6m per day. If a tool can't save you 10-15m per day, it doesn't deserve a "throughout the day" slot IMHO. Which isn't to say that ChatGPT fits that bill for me - I think it requires too much supervision to save time. But people are too cheap about genuinely useful tools.
If you're paid by the hour like that, doesn't saving 2 hours per week mean you are getting paid $20 less per week?
It's the opposite. A salaried developer on an agile team commits to a certain amount of work per sprint. If they can get it done in 2 hours less time, that's a net gain for the developer.