At least anon didn’t downvote an question because he found that question “similar” to another “solved” question in stackoverflow.
I used to provide tech support by googling the answers, maybe my next venture is providing tech support via a fully automated ChatGPT?
Most questions on SO these days are very specific so I doubt ChatGPT would be able to come up with good answers for those. All the easy questions have been answered long ago.
Especially since ChatGPT can’t think of a new answer, right? It’s working off data that’s already somewhere online. It’s just using predictive text based to determine the next word based on what users have typed. So most of these answers people get from “AI” are out there for these people to get from real people.
I don’t know why you’re getting down voted. That is how it works to my understanding (as a layperson). It was fed training data and is very good at predictive text. I don’t think it can take concepts it’s learned and apply them in novel ways.
Deciding what to write next based on what it just wrote is reasoning. So saying “it’s just predicting the next word” is very dismissive if you haven’t used it.
My personal experience was I spent hours googling a for a script. I gave up and typed my problem into chatgpt. It gave working code in seconds.
It wasn’t just cutting and pasting what was already on Google.
This is hilarious but I don’t think fully answers the question. This is a good example of something novel that GPT can do, ie manipulating language according to new rules to create rhythm and rhymes.
However, to give a more over the top example: if you removed all mention of planes from its corpus, leaving only information on air resistance and materials science, and then asked it for the best way to cross the Atlantic, it would never invent a plane for you.
Good thing every single programming line is already documented somewhere.
It doesn’t need to think of new answers.
I swear, uninformed people who underestimate AI will be the death of us
Didn’t GPT pull in StackOverflow as a source? Questions are probably repeats of existing or close enough.
If I had a dollar for every time ChatGPT gave me code that worked but didn’t do anything I asked it to, I would have $5. Not because its accurate, but because I only had the patience to correct its work 5 times.
ChatGPT is really good at telling me I’m a dumbass and to do it some other way when I ask why my code isn’t working. I’ll give it credit for that.
After it gave me
to implement X in your app, you need to take into account A, B, and C5 times in a row when I asked it on what steps needed to be taken, I cancelled my sub immediately.ChatGPT is getting fucking lazy.
every AI is getting bad. I’m using some off-brand (some might say indie) ones, and they’re slower dumber and have more payed options by the day.
ChatGPT if not for cheating in school I wouldn’t use it at all probly. Phind.com was my go-to favorite, now can’t search the web for shit gpt option is payed and it’s just dumb. You.com my friend used this, straight ignored my request yesterday.
do other’s have the same experience? If yes, follow-up question are they dumbing down AI, and keeping the power to themselves? 2nd follow-up how can I selfhost a good AI and what do I need for it to work?
Boilerplate that I know by heart but can’t be giving bothered to type? Sure.
Context specific, unique manipulations? Nah, in going in raw
I can’t speak for GPT, but I usually let copilot take a first pass at things, then when I start to tweak them to fix Copilot’s mistakes, the AI peer-codes it out with me pretty quick.
I’ve actually managed to get copilot to offer a valid solution to a problem that was cleaner than my own (though it took a few tries).
Dev AI’s work and save time as long as you know what you’re doing and aren’t trying to lean on the AI to do all the coding.
Recursion INFINITE
As bad an idea as that would be, if real, it’s still hard to underperform relative to SO.
Closed ss duplicate “link to completely unrelated questionr”
