I have seen someone type “tell me how make a million dollar business” into chatgpt. Of course that’s not going to work. But LLMs have immediate obvious value that crypto does not, and I think making the comparison reveals a lack of experience with those useful applications. I’m using chatgpt nearly every day as a tool to help with coding. It’s not a replacement for a person, but it is like giving a person a forklift.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s like crypto, or really any other con job.
It makes idiots feel smart.
Make a mark feel like they’re smart, and they’ll become attached to the idea and defend it to their death. Because the alternative is they aren’t really smart and fell for a scam.
When smart people try to explain that to the idiots, it just makes them defend the scam even harder.
Try to tell people chatgpt isn’t great, and they just ramble on about some nonsensical stuff they don’t even understand themselves and then claim anyone that disagrees just isn’t smart enough to get it.
It’s a great business plan if you have zero morals, which is why the method never really goes away, just moves to another product.
sumofchemicals@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
“ChatGPT is great” depends on what context you’re talking about. Use it for generating mock data and I’d say it’s pretty great.
Getting help with my code as a professional software developer is pretty decent and much better than Google or Stack.
Getting it to tell me about Physics, not great in my situation as I don’t know enough about physics to know where it’s wrong.
Point being, it can be a great TOOL to aid you in your specialist field of work.
People think that it’ll do your job for you but it’s more a kin to a calculator. It’s a tool to help people.
CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
I find it to be an excellent tool to help me write. Staring at a blank page is one of the hardest hurdles to overcome. By asking questions to chatGPT, I start organizing my thoughts about what I want to write, and it gives me instant words on the page to start manipulating. I am a subject matter expert on these topics and therefore screen what it gives me for correctness. It’s surprisingly good, but it has hallucinated some things. But on the balance I find it very helpful.