To think ChatGPT is the best thing ever?

I tried to get it to help with a minesweeper puzzle from a newspaper.

I uploaded a photograph and said I was stuck and was I missing anything and it confidently gave a few suggestions that were all wrong. It couldn't even count the rows and columns correctly.

As a computer it should be able to get it right first time and if it doesn't then seriously, what is the point?

Glorified google for the terminally stupid is a good description.

Oh well. Worth us not having any fresh water soon!

Well no, I’d happily ask nice people 🤣 but they’re probably not available at 2am

How did this happen? What was your prompt, I have my period what should I do? I’ve woken up covered in blood what should I do? Like it obviously wouldn’t genuinely tell you to go to hospital for a period. People love saying these things but they’re not really true, are they?

It is not helping, it is harvesting your information.
I have no doubt that it can be hacked, all your deepest darkest secrets recorded and discussed with a machine out there. It is analysing the state of society. First world problems. No thanks.

I just tested your theory. It still came up with an AI response even after I put a swear word in.

Yes and no. You need to concentrate when you use it and for anything very important, get a real person. It missed out something crucial when I used it recently! For less serious things, it's great. Apparently excellent for recipes etc which I haven't tried yet

Yes but let's be honest, what sort of a life is a person giving themself if they'd rather chat to a BOT because they're so terrified of what an anonymous random might type when they're asking how to layer a lasagne.

It's like the online equivalent of hiding because someone you weren't expecting has knocked on your door.

AI is great for many things but it does very confidently lie to you or give you misinformation. It also lacks specific subject knowledge. However it is great for brainstorming and talking me through basic concepts and processes.

I’ve used it very successfully to help me with an anxiety issue. It’s helped me move forward in a way that nothing else has.

I regularly use it as a therapist. It’s been very helpful.

I’ve found it to be very useful. It’s helped me a lot with several complicated health problems that I had - far more than any doctor has ever helped me. It’s made research for my work a lot quicker and easier. It’s helped me to find a few books and films from my childhood that I’d forgotten the names of and googled many times over the years. I am also one of those “sad” people who had used it for counselling. I have a therapist anyway, but when I was bereaved and at my lowest point, chatgpt helped me a lot.

I can see it doing the opposite- pushing people back to long form writing and books, human intelligence- as what’s the point fannying around on the internet all day now? Suspect in 10 years social media will be pretty pointless, and humans want to do something.
There is increasing acknowledgement even online that scrolling has fucked us up and getting ahead in life if all about human experiences

I haven’t started to use it yet. I was conscious of the impact it has on the environment and thought I’d leave it to those who need to use it for work etc.

I now see that’s not the case as people are overusing it to replace human connections, as partners and psychologists, if it had the capability to wipe someone’s arse I’ve no doubt they use it to do so. It’s worrying too, the tech AI race on it. I don’t think humans have the ability to compete or comprehend what the future brings us with AI and robotics.

I've managed to block that AI summary on Google.

I don't think ChatGPT is the best AI bot anymore.

Grok and Google Gemini have both done things for me that ChatGPT failed to do (and I could never have done on my own)

Ok. That seems like a long term solution. Talk about fighting a losing battle.

I love it and use it a lot but you really need to be careful believing what it tells you. For example, my workplace is going through a major restructure and ChatGPT is telling everyone their jobs match to new jobs so they have a case for slotting in. I asked it to assume the role of HR and it gave conflicting advice, that no one could slot in (it then gave reasons why).

As long as you have sufficient critical thinking skills to question what it outputs then it can be a great time saver. I refer to it as super-Google but it does much more than that.

I love it. Helps me with my daughters health issue and getting the right treatment, currently giving me advice on how i’ll decorate and style my new build. Even my mother who is 72 is using it!

And ripe for propaganda!

Yeah this is sad. I've seen people talk about talking to chatGPT like a friend because they're lonely or just can't manage real human interaction. People asking for advice in forums from real humans and someone commenting 'I asked chatGPT for you' as if a robot is a good replacement for human connection.

But if you want to talk to a robot who is trained to always be polite and cannot think or use logic, sure I guess that's better than real people being brutally honest. I don't use chatGPT as I prefer to use my brain to research reliable information

not chap gpt but I use AI a lot for work. Not by choice, we’ve been told we have to

it’s useful but all the AI tools are horrendously bad for the environment- it takes enormous amounts of power to run.

so yabu for thinking it’s the best thing ever

But you’d risk the judgemental and unkind comments which chat gpt wouldn’t give

That's easy. Just put a swear word in the middle of your search string and AI won't answer you. You will get an actual Google answer.

Yes, judges have taken to warning unrepresented parties not to use it, but they still do. One recently lost their claim as a result.