ChatGPT is disappointingly stupid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP. I mentioned this on another thread and someone told me basically to shut up because AI is so wonderful. But I'll try again in case this helps.

At the official Microsoft CoPilot prompting workshop I went to, they said the best way to stop the hallucinating is to include statements in the prompt requesting that nothing be made up. Like "Do not make up any information or support points when answering this question".

So basically you beg the AI not to lie to you.

This doesn’t work. I’ve tried to repeatedly.

Lol, so the Microsoft people pushing AI implementation also are incorrect and/or lie.

Hilarious. What a world we live in.

[Anonymous]

Well rats. I'm using it to make me a summer travel itinerary, as in, make recommendations that fit my criteria of a certain temperature range, a few bugs as possible, drivable distance, etc. Will it make mistakes?

[Anonymous]

Why do you use it a dozen times per day if it's wrong so often? I use it a lot at home and love it. I wouldn't trust it at work.

[Anonymous]

I use it to compare purchases but it gets a lot of facts wrong with that as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well rats. I'm using it to make me a summer travel itinerary, as in, make recommendations that fit my criteria of a certain temperature range, a few bugs as possible, drivable distance, etc. Will it make mistakes?

Yeah, but it's still helpful!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you use it a dozen times per day if it's wrong so often? I use it a lot at home and love it. I wouldn't trust it at work.

I've asked myself this. I'm clearly in an abusive relationship with it, and despite my attempts to break free, I daydream about the good times and end up going back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you use it a dozen times per day if it's wrong so often? I use it a lot at home and love it. I wouldn't trust it at work.

I've asked myself this. I'm clearly in an abusive relationship with it, and despite my attempts to break free, I daydream about the good times and end up going back.

[Anonymous]

You have to learn how to write prompts correctly. Seriously. Take a course in how to do it. You must also ask it to check it's work. Learn how to set the temps on hallucination. You have to put in some effort.

[Anonymous]

I’m honestly having a blast using it and I don’t understand why people aren’t figuring out what a great tool AI is if you don’t rely on it to hand you your work.

Here is what I use it for:
- coding to create automated spreadsheets and word templates- I already knew how to do some computer programming honestly but I was not going to make this effort w/o ChatGPT
- Converting data and moving it around, turning documents into tables that I can load into excel and turn into a mini database
- uploading and summarizing long documents like legislation or regulations- it’s accurate at this
- outlining out ideas, organizing my thoughts and pointing out things I missed
- planning out steps for long term projects

It’s a fantastic tool but you’ll notice I’m not asking it to do my job, just augment things I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well rats. I'm using it to make me a summer travel itinerary, as in, make recommendations that fit my criteria of a certain temperature range, a few bugs as possible, drivable distance, etc. Will it make mistakes?

Just assume it will be wrong 20% of the time and you will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m honestly having a blast using it and I don’t understand why people aren’t figuring out what a great tool AI is if you don’t rely on it to hand you your work.

Here is what I use it for:
- coding to create automated spreadsheets and word templates- I already knew how to do some computer programming honestly but I was not going to make this effort w/o ChatGPT
- Converting data and moving it around, turning documents into tables that I can load into excel and turn into a mini database
- uploading and summarizing long documents like legislation or regulations- it’s accurate at this
- outlining out ideas, organizing my thoughts and pointing out things I missed
- planning out steps for long term projects

It’s a fantastic tool but you’ll notice I’m not asking it to do my job, just augment things I do.

It’s not accurate at the bolded. It only seems accurate to people who don’t have the experience and skill to catch the mistakes it makes. It looks very accurate, but is not actually accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to learn how to write prompts correctly. Seriously. Take a course in how to do it. You must also ask it to check it's work. Learn how to set the temps on hallucination. You have to put in some effort.

I literally work in the field and this is wrong.

[Anonymous]

I setup a solid custom instructions and it is pretty decent and while it does sometimes can be a bit obtuse in general it seems smarter than average person and definitely smarter than average when it comes to technical stuff or writing some scripts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have to learn how to write prompts correctly. Seriously. Take a course in how to do it. You must also ask it to check it's work. Learn how to set the temps on hallucination. You have to put in some effort.

I literally work in the field and this is wrong.

Ok, expert. Correct me! What about the response is wrong?

[Anonymous]

Try Gemini or grok. They are better and you can work with them to refine responses.