The official ChatGPT thread - the next big thing?

[SeattleUte]

I think you are grossly underestimating what ChatGPT could become. What’s wild to me is that I always pictured AI would come for the service and production type of jobs. In actuality this thing presages the loss of white collar jobs. How long before it can beat a human lawyer in the courtroom? It’s got to at least raise an eyebrow in your world.

I said presently. I didn't say anything about what it could become. Is this your field? How do you know what it can become?

There's no present prospect of it beating a good human lawyer in a courtroom.

I don't doubt there are white collar jobs it could do or make easier. The legal profession has been enhanced--if you're a good lawyer--for a long time now by forms of AI.

[SteelBlue]

Is this your field? How do you know what it can become?

There's no present prospect of it beating a good human lawyer in a courtroom.

No qualifications whatsoever. I just read and imagine, so I suppose we're in the same boat. All I know is that about 2 months ago I had no idea readily available AI could do anything like what chatGPT can do and based on the reactions of some very intelligent people, neither did most. What will it be doing in 5 years? It always starts as an "enhancement", you really need to brush up on your 80's/90's movies.

[Clark Addison]

I recently read (or listened to, rather) "The Skeptics' Guide to the Future". One of the things he says a few times is (paraphrasing) that when we look at scientific and technological progress and where it will be going, we tend to over-estimate short-term progress and impacts, and under-estimate long-term. I think ChatGPT and its kind probably will follow that rule.

AI is actually one of the main subjects of the book. It was a little uneven, but interesting.

[Moliere]

I work in a very technical area of my profession. I recently asked chatgpt to write some cash flow hedge documentation for a wti fixed swap. What it wrote wouldn’t work for what I needed, but I was impressed with what it gave as it would have been a great starting point for the documentation. Sometimes, just starting the documentation is harder than modifying something that already exists.

[Non Sequitur]

I work in a very technical area of my profession. I recently asked chatgpt to write some cash flow hedge documentation for a wti fixed swap. What it wrote wouldn’t work for what I needed, but I was impressed with what it gave as it would have been a great starting point for the documentation. Sometimes, just starting the documentation is harder than modifying something that already exists.

AI will eventually revolutionize software development. I've seen several YouTube videos of developers asking ChatGPT to design web pages using specific frameworks with specific functionality, and the results are surprising. There's a ways to go, but in the future the heavy lifting of software development will be done by AI.

[Jeff Lebowski]

AI will eventually revolutionize software development. I've seen several YouTube videos of developers asking ChatGPT to design web pages using specific frameworks with specific functionality, and the results are surprising. There's a ways to go, but in the future the heavy lifting of software development will be done by AI.

Yes. I have seen people give it a few parameters and ask it to write WordPress plugins. The results were sophisticated solutions that only required minor tweaking to get it working. It is a whole new world.

[SteelBlue]

https://gizmodo.com/bing-chatgpt-mic...-ai-1850072135

New ChatGPT Interface Is Allegedly Popping Up on Bing

A new ChatGPT interface is reported to have appeared on Bing's search engine on Thursday.

[Uncle Ted]

https://gizmodo.com/bing-chatgpt-mic...-ai-1850072135

New ChatGPT Interface Is Allegedly Popping Up on Bing

A new ChatGPT interface is reported to have appeared on Bing's search engine on Thursday.

No one uses that Bing crap... Google's ChatGPT will be better.

[beefytee]

I use Bing, not because it is any better than Google search, or any worse for that matter, but because with Microsoft Rewards I get a $10 amazon gift card every few months. Why give away your privacy/soul when you can sell it.

[SteelBlue]

So I guess bing has added it to “the new Bing” for which there is now a waiting list. It’s very hard to imagine that Bing could ever be on the level of google, but if they are the search engine that has exclusive access it could get interesting I suppose.

[SteelBlue]

No one uses that Bing crap... Google's ChatGPT will be better.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64576225

This is not me sticking up for Bing. I didn’t know about the Microsoft tie in to OpenAI until I read this article. But I do find it interesting to compare this rush to Bard to the rumors that google is crapping their pants over ChatGPT.

[Jeff Lebowski]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64576225

This is not me sticking up for Bing. I didn’t know about the Microsoft tie in to OpenAI until I read this article. But I do find it interesting to compare this rush to Bard to the rumors that google is crapping their pants over ChatGPT.

MS/OpenAI collaboration is great. I cannot wait until ChatGPT is embedded in MS Word.

[YOhio]

I've definitely used ChatGPT quite a bit for various projects, emails, etc. But it has gotten progressively more lame. Like when it first came out I'd ask it to write jokes making fun of my friends and I'd send it to him. The jokes were usually pretty bad, but that was part of what made it fun. Then it stopped telling the jokes and lectured me on harmful blah blah blah. Anyways some brilliant redditors figured out a way to jailbrake it and made it fun again, though I'm sure the scolds at OpenAI will figure out a way to put a wet blanket on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...dan-jailbreak/

[SteelBlue]

Just got off the waiting list for the new Bing. I don't know if Bing will be able to draw enough users to become relevant, but it's very clear that the way we search is about to change forever. ChatGPT's ability to remember your entire conversation makes searching feel like you have an actual human assistant who has near instant access to all of the world's info. I've been using it lately to drill down on obscure 19th century literature and it's been amazing the recs it has given. To do the same on any pre-chat search engine would be impossible or at least so time consuming as to be prohibitive.

[SteelBlue]

I've definitely used ChatGPT quite a bit for various projects, emails, etc. But it has gotten progressively more lame. Like when it first came out I'd ask it to write jokes making fun of my friends and I'd send it to him. The jokes were usually pretty bad, but that was part of what made it fun. Then it stopped telling the jokes and lectured me on harmful blah blah blah. Anyways some brilliant redditors figured out a way to jailbrake it and made it fun again, though I'm sure the scolds at OpenAI will figure out a way to put a wet blanket on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...dan-jailbreak/

That ChatGPT sub-reddit is really fun and quite helpful.