How has ChatGPT improved your life?

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Anonymous wrote:I use it in leiu of google. it's very good at laying out things that you might want to consider, ti's not as helpful at making decisions, but Google is now a cesspool of sponsored links and SEO-optimized websites. ChatGPT is much more efficient.

Interesting. Agree that google is not what it once was.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I hate it. It is ruining kids.

Then teach in a way where they can’t rely on it. Write essays in class. Give lots of personal feedback on essays, make revisions. Have high standard. You get what you expect. So many schools have so low expectations of students they don’t even bother.

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Anonymous wrote:The chatgpt lawyer lawsuit was HILARIOUS. I don’t use it myself.

Link?

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Anonymous wrote:I use it in leiu of google. it's very good at laying out things that you might want to consider, ti's not as helpful at making decisions, but Google is now a cesspool of sponsored links and SEO-optimized websites. ChatGPT is much more efficient.

Does ChatGPT still hallucinate or is it more reliable?

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I hate it. It is ruining kids.

As a teacher I love it. It helps me create lessons and resources.

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I mostly use it for parlor tricks. It’s subtly but seriously wrong about 30% of the time for questions where I have expertise so I don’t trust it.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I hate it. It is ruining kids.

As a teacher I love it. It helps me create lessons and resources.

If you can't teach or live with chatgpt then you need to re-evaluate yourself

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I hate it. It is ruining kids.

I don't have to be the one doing homework now.

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ChatGPT is like a 1st year grad student. Extremely confident, but usually wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I hate it. It is ruining kids.

That’s what they said about the Internet…. That it would ruin books and libraries and reading, research skills, writing papers, etc…. and make kids all dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I hate it. It is ruining kids.

That’s what they said about the Internet…. That it would ruin books and libraries and reading, research skills, writing papers, etc…. and make kids all dumb.

And it did to a degree when students cited Wikipedia as an authoritative source.... and teachers began accepting it as such. Wikipedia has gotten better over the years, providing links in most of its entries, but many of these are paywalled. Likewise, digital publications can be stealth edited like Wikipedia.

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If this is a WAPO intern, do better. This kind of research is fine initially much like Wikipedia can be a starting point, but get out there and interview people too. Garbage in, garbage out.

If this is PR team, tip of the hat. Garbage in, garbage out.

If this is an engineer, get off of the forum and go take a poetry class for fun and professional development. Garbage in, garbage out.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I hate it. It is ruining kids.

That’s what they said about the Internet…. That it would ruin books and libraries and reading, research skills, writing papers, etc…. and make kids all dumb.

It has done all of that and more.

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Anonymous wrote:I, my husband, and I use it pretty frequently. Here are our recent questions:

"I have a list of 80 words in Excel. Each word is in its own row. All words are in the same column. I need to convert the list of words to a single string of text that combines all of the words and places the word "OR" between each word, with a space on each side of the word "OR." Is there a quick way to do this in Excel?"

"Make an image of 2016 makeup." (this was mine, it was hilarious.)

[Image upload of a plant from our yard] "What plant is this?"

"Which mascaras are on my safe shopping list?" (I have skin allergies and using chatgpt is actually the easiest way to keep track of what I can and can't use.)

"How to rationalize the denominator when the denominator is a fourth root"

"the elements of establishing personal jurisdiction in a civil case in Texas."

"Create an obfuscated C# code example." (DS is really into coding and uses chatGPT all the time).

My son is really into AI and he uses the openAI API a lot. The API doesn't have the same restrictions that Chatgpt and the stuff he does on the API is pretty hilarious. Recently he had it write me a manipulative message to convince me to buy some apple home pods. It said things like "if you want the best for your son, you will buy an apple home pod" and "they're on sale for a limited time!" He has also gotten really good at making custom GPTs give up their prompts. Obviously none of this is necessary for a regular adult but it's really fun for an 11-year old.

I know other people who use ChatGPT in similar ways - someone I know, who is pretty reclusive, basically just "talks" to it all day, typing in her random thoughts and questions and getting feedback. I think it helps her digest information. To each their own! But personally I prefer to put a shorter and more search-like phase into Google.
This is going to sound judgey and I honestly don't mean it that way, but it makes me think of those co-workers and bosses who will think aloud for 5 minutes on the way to getting around to their actual question, which is often not the quesiton they opened with. My personality is to process quietly and then ask really narrow questions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I use it in leiu of google. it's very good at laying out things that you might want to consider, ti's not as helpful at making decisions, but Google is now a cesspool of sponsored links and SEO-optimized websites. ChatGPT is much more efficient.

Does ChatGPT still hallucinate or is it more reliable?

It will never be reliable because of the way it's trained. The danger is that people think it would ever be reliable.

If you want to write something that "sounds like" a particular style of writing, it's fine. If you want to digest a large body of information that is largely uncontroversial and consistent, fine. If you want it to do anything else, including understand controversial or nuanced topics, it will never be a good source.