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Ive played with ChatGPT dozens of times. I’ve actually used AI maybe a handful of times. Usually for trying to gussie up a bid for some plumbing work. It’s a mixed bag there. Sometimes I get some pretty good results, sometimes it sounds like exactly what it is- a halfway literate middle aged dumbass using AI to church up a bid. I’ve used the logo generator when playing around with ideas for work/business cards. That’s hit or miss also but in the cases I’m mostly using it in I’m not sure if it’s the tool or the idiot using the tool.
Frankly, im not artistic. I’m not a creative type so my uses for something like AI will probably always be based on things I interact with or put my hands on (does that make sense?) like looking up relevant specs in a technical manual for something I am currently servicing in the field, or looking up a part that’s on a boiler that was out of date when my grandpa was a toddler.
I guess AI really won’t be any different for me, than using a regular search engine already is. In my life as it is currently, I don’t have a use for AI.
I hate to say it, that just because I can’t find a use for it that it’s swill and should be 86’d, but I can’t find a use for it so it’s shit and should be put in the fkn garbage can.
I like to use it for summarising large texts. It's very effective at that.
I don't like using it for much else, occasionally if I have writers block for an announcement or something it's a good way to break through it but I almost never go with its suggestions but rather it helps me to outline something and then it's most reworded in a way that isn't absolute garbage because it only ever outputs corpo-speak.
Using it to summarize large blocks of text sounds like a really great use. I’ll have to remember that next time I’m trying to get thru something and just want the Cliff’s Notes.
Actually there was a writeup posted not too long ago by a researcher who compared his summary of a report to one made by chatgpt, and the gist of his writeup is that AI doesn't effectively summarize things, it just shortens them. Which makes sense when you consider that it doesn't actually understand any of what it's consuming. So beware that in those summaries you could end up with irrelevant information, false conclusions, and a lot of missing vital information. If it's not something super important that's fine but it's a big pitfall to be aware of.
Ok that does make some sense. It doesn’t understand what portions of sentences/paragraphs are conveying something important because it’s not an actual brain so I suppose if I’m using it to summarize a jam recipe I’ll be okay but definitely don’t use it to summarize a molten salt reactor build.
I can easily see it getting confused by prioritizing the wrong information. "Use 2.5-3 cups of butter or 3 cups of margarine" getting cut down to "use 2.5-3 cups butter or margarine" and then you're fucked if you use 2.5 cups margarine, to use a silly example off the top of my head. But pretend it's a molten salt reactor instead.
100%, any time I've tested it on a text I know, I have been disappointed.