ChatGPT

I have asked it to
  • Write bedtime stories with my kids
  • Diagnose why a medical / microbiological strain test may be providing incorrect information
  • Generate matlab code for rate equation modelling in physics using the PDE toolbox
  • Generate text content for a website, including paragraphs for each service on offer
  • Provide a primer on specific topics in the field of radar technology
  • Create a Christian sermon on loss and family trauma
  • Tell me jokes, using different types of humour (it mostly does wordplay)
  • Write "fizzbuzz code golf" code in pascal using the least amount of characters possible (it couldn't beat any records)
It honestly did a remarkable job with all of these. I didn't fact check everything, but didn't need to either. As a tool, it will do 90% of the grunt work for you, and will ultimately become absolutely indispensable in every day life.
 
It feels like more people should be losing their minds here... :ROFL:
 
Mobus said:
It feels like more people should be losing their minds here... :ROFL:
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This blows my mind far more than the StableDiffusion etc. image generation stuff. Not only because the syntax is incredible across a large domain of languages, but because the utility is very obvious right from the start. Let me interface with this via a 100% working voice input and we're basically at the tech in the movie Her.
 
I've actually let it write some code for me.
It works remarkably well.

But it seems the chaps at openai started using cloudflare and now anything that takes more than 60 seconds to compile just throws a network error.

Anyhow. This tool is dangerous and it can kill a ton of jobs imho. I am sure once out of public review it will cost a ton to use.
 
Also, I've started using this instead of asking google when I'm stuck with something. The detailed responses with some code samples are just mind blowing. No need to click around on multiple links google provides and filter through that info.
 
It reviewed a movie for me... a 2022 movie. ChatGPT wasnt supposed to know the movie existed as it went "offline" in 2021. It didn't care.
 
At this stage it cant handle to complex code solutions but it does a great job at the basics

This could replace a huge amount of dev jobs in the future that is the scary part as you need one or two devs that understand the language and just use the AI to do the coding, and your job would be to actually just ask the correct questions.
 
Mobus said:
It reviewed a movie for me... a 2022 movie. ChatGPT wasnt supposed to know the movie existed as it went "offline" in 2021. It didn't care.
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People have also managed to do things like list the 5 current top viral videos (url's) on Warren Buffet trading principles, and it was indeed current.
 
Acid0 said:
At this stage it cant handle to complex code solutions but it does a great job at the basics

This could replace a huge amount of dev jobs in the future that is the scary part as you need one or two devs that understand the language and just use the AI to do the coding, and your job would be to actually just ask the correct questions.
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How do you see that as different from searching for code samples on stackoverflow?
 
saor said:
Please write an autoexec.bat file that acts like a fake virus and does some graphical stuff to scare the person watching it execute

Code: 
@echo off

echo ******************************
echo *** DANGER: VIRUS DETECTED ***
echo ******************************

echo.
echo Infection spreading...
echo.

color 0c

:loop
echo ******************************
echo *** DANGER: VIRUS DETECTED ***
echo ******************************
echo.
echo Infection spreading...
echo.

goto loop
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^^^ Hmm they've changed something. I can no longer get it to do certain things.

Edit: I now have to enter> please provide the code for....

gt.png
 
I'm also having trouble asking previously working questions such as short assembler programs (tied to specific assemblers and CPUs) and general information about CPU internals.
 
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Acid0 said:
At this stage it cant handle to complex code solutions but it does a great job at the basics

This could replace a huge amount of dev jobs in the future that is the scary part as you need one or two devs that understand the language and just use the AI to do the coding, and your job would be to actually just ask the correct questions.
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I've also tried to make large complex things, such as a project that uses AI to do XYZ. Because it's so slow at the moment you can only get a bit of code/explanation out of it, maybe x5 times before it times out. Restarting on a big thing is also very hard, since you first need to enter the whole thing about to continue again.

As B-1 says, asking it to do smaller things is the same as googling it, but it does so in a curated fashion, without you having to go through for example 10 pages.
 
animal531 said:
As B-1 says, asking it to do smaller things is the same as googling it, but it does so in a curated fashion, without you having to go through for example 10 pages.
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It definitely is a great resource I just find the whole we are all going to become obselete thing a bit silly.

One thing I like is to use it to help work through a problem similar to how you would bounce ideas off a team to solve problems or improve your code. Its great for people who work in small teams with not a lot of peers that can help when you are stuck.
I do find it a bit agreeable though. If you tell it no do it like this it tends to agree and do it even if its not correct according to specifications or the version you specified.
 
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