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Business_System3319 t1_j9k519z wrote

I’m not impressed by chatgpts search ability….

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samyoualljaxuhn t1_j9kuqu2 wrote

I find it quite useful when I’m coding and I don’t know if something is possible. I just type in ‘is it possible to do x, and if so how?’

Saves me reading through a lot of bs on the web

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Business_System3319 t1_j9kv8ft wrote

It is good for coding I will admit

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samyoualljaxuhn t1_j9kw7nf wrote

Yeah it’s good for when there is something on the internet that solves your answer, but it’s like a needle in a haystack to find. You don’t have to concern yourself with phrasing it just right and scouring stack overflow. I think the power is not just in its webscraping abilities, but for it to estimate what you mean by your question to a ridiculous degree of certainty. It’s very rare that it misunderstands my question even when I am 99% sure I sound confusing

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Business_System3319 t1_j9ky4uk wrote

I agree with this assessment I guess I had unrealistic expectations. I’m invested in a company that does medical research it does well for equations, bad with nuances. Stuff that needs new research to be done it’s frustrating but I think I just need to pay for the paid version

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samyoualljaxuhn t1_j9kyozz wrote

Completely agree about the nuance element. I’m pretty sure that if you spent the time to explicitly state all the nuances and dependencies of a given task before asking how to do it, you’d get somewhat of a relevant response. I don’t know. If you have complex work then it requires complex prompting and I’d rather just do it myself!

I don’t need a taxi driver, I’m just happy with someone to help me navigate now and again

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Nyrin t1_j9noued wrote

I'm not impressed by my toaster's computational capacity, either.

ChatGPT isn't meant to replace search by itself. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6783457-chatgpt-general-faq

> ChatGPT is not connected to the internet, and it can occasionally produce incorrect answers. It has limited knowledge of world and events after 2021 and may also occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content.

Using a magic language model like this together with a search index, though, has a lot of potential. Which is not so coincidentally exactly what the Bing thing is working towards.

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