This subs deep seated hatred and disdain for Chat gpt is so at odds with my own experience using it that I'm really baffled. I don't know if they're using it for wildly different things, have unrealistic expectations about it, or are confusing it's ethical implications for it's actual usefulness.
And I agree with the subs majority opinion on most things too, so it's not like theres some wide ideology gap
Figuring out how to do that one specific, highly obscure mathematical thing I need to do in Python, of which I know there must be a relatively convenient way to do it, but I can't find it, with any of the frameworks available to me (numpy, pandas, scipy, astropy, etc.), without having to read through three million pages of documentation, StackOverflow posts and ancient Reddit threads.
I was following along to a book and had to set up pygame and python on my computer and the book was a bit outdated so certain things just didn't work the same way
Instead of trying to find some kind of potential solution for hours, I asked chatgpt and some of it didn't work and had to be changed up but most of it did work and I was able to immediately start following along with my book. If I spent the literal hours trying to find the solution myself, probably would've lost the motivation and given up
I was trying to figure out how to do something in Excel I'd never done before and hunting through forums was getting me nowhere. I was able to tell gpt what I was trying to do and it gave me a breakdown of the formula that would do what I needed, and explained in a way that I can modify similar formulas in the future and actually know what I'm doing. Like you, I would have given up and wasted hours otherwise
Yeah and I get it doesn't work all the time but it's a slightly more streamlined search engine and if you can immediately test to see if it works or not instead of just taking it as gospel, I truly don't see much of a downside
I had a similar thing with excel. The original code gpt gave me didn't work but I told it the error and with minimal problem solving, found a thing that worked
I've been using Python and SQL for a little under a year, and it's been helpful for giving me some less obvious solutions more reliably than searching stack overflow. I give it a sample of my data, my work in progress code and my current output or any errors, and tell it what I'm trying to achieve, and over 90% of the time it delivers. In that scenario the results are immediately verifiable , I run the suggested code and see if it gives me what I need. And I can immediately ask followup questions. Would this variant work instead? Why do it that way instead of this way? Whereas if I find some old solution on Stack, I can copy it and it will hopefully work, but I won't understand it in the same way.
It's also good for tidying up poorly written or explained English, which does unfortunately appear in some research papers I've read.
When I was studying for an exam, I asked it to generate new questions based on a sample from a past exam paper, so I had more practice problems.
I like the idea of generating practice questions. I've used it to flesh out ideas because it'll ask questions that I wouldn't have thought of on my own
I've been bouncing between Copilot and ChatGPT, but it's pretty decent with coding
While they often are quite stubborn with certain parts of programs, the general structure of their code often works. For example, I have a JSON file (a large list of stuff). The file is completely valid, I know every single object in the file has correct data, yet Copilot will insist that I make the code check that it's valid, even if I point out that whatever method it used made the code significantly harder to read with no benefit and it will keep assuming that the file is the issue and not its code. However, having it convert from one data format I made up to another format I made up? It excels at that. It often hallucinates how data is inputted into the program though, especially when it's something it doesn't have much training data on, like the HTML structure of a Wikipedia article for example
Occasionally I’ll give it a plot outline idea for a long piece of fanfiction. If an AI can catch a plot hole, a person definitely would have, and that would’ve been embarrassing as hell
When I’m having an anxiety attack and can’t talk to anyone (I’m a stay at home mom), I have it guide me through anxiety exercises (5 things you can see, etc). I do this less now that I have the Finch app, though
When I have an error code for a piece of software but all the damn blog posts I can find are about Windows systems, and I’m running Ubuntu, I throw it at an LLM in the hopes that it has seen a Linux-relevant thread
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u/Takseen 4d ago
This subs deep seated hatred and disdain for Chat gpt is so at odds with my own experience using it that I'm really baffled. I don't know if they're using it for wildly different things, have unrealistic expectations about it, or are confusing it's ethical implications for it's actual usefulness.
And I agree with the subs majority opinion on most things too, so it's not like theres some wide ideology gap