Chat GPT is amazing

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I know AI can be scary but I've struggled with something for over 30 years and last night chat gpt framed it for me in a way that years of therapy never has and it's given me peace.
It's fabulous.

No point to this post, just wanted to say!

Calculators only manage numbers.

Chat GPT is a little more capable than that surely?

AI use it a lot in work. Its great for starting stuff, ill ask it for a project framework- which I adjust and build on.

I also use it for a translations etc

Is it ok to ask what sort of task ?

I can't use ChatGPT because of where I live, but an Engineer mate in the UK tells me he has tried it, but gave up because of the mistakes it made.

In his case, one of the things he tested it on was safety standards and regs for elevators. Something he knows a lot about, and his verdict was not to trust it.

I manage people in my job and as part of that hold reviews with individuals. People have used it to generate their reviews and submitted them verbatim. AI does not reflect who they are, how they communicate (their lexicon) or what they have done over a period of time at all well.

Give your head a wobble and wake up. Chat GPT and AI are not good, they're probably going to destroy us. Our jobs, digital infrastructure, friendships, online communities etc. Apps like Pinterest have already been taken over by AI so almost 50% of the posts you see are fake.

AI is not amazing. Do some research? Get out from under that rock?

AI has definitely screwed up Duolingo, which used to be a decent language learning app. Facebook is also worthless now. And these are very very minor annoyances.

People saying it’s like Google or a calculator, are you for real?

Go to the subreddit and read posts from people who think they are in real romantic relationships with ChatGPT and come back and say that people said the same thing about calculators.

I use chatgpt a lot, it helped me through a very difficult work situation and I now use it more in my work as it works well as a personal assistant.

@RedTagAlan sure. My DC with SEN had a lot of issues throughout the EHCP process and school behaved appallingly. My mind was a mess and I desperately wanted to report to the board of governors (and then ofsted) but couldn't even begin to sort through my mountains of notes and evidence.

So I turned it to 'talk' mode and spoke at it for like 30 mins, all out of order, just 'this happened oh and this happened oh and this happened' and it made me an incredible letter, cut out all of my repetition and unnecessary things etc. I asked it to back up my examples with guidance and legislation, which it did (which I fact checked of course). It took about 2 hours editing and playing around and I had a letter that was absolutely fantastic.

I could have written a letter myself of course- I am educated person- but it would have taken me a long, long, long time and a lot of mental stress and god knows how long trying to read through appropriate legislation (months maybe) to find things to back me up. What it came up with was a million times better than I could have managed myself.

Well - there were Luddites who objected to progress repeated in every age and for every new invention.

We just have to use these things with wisdom and thoughtfulness.

Yup. I am old enough to remember trig tables, and log books.

At college I was an early user of programmable calculators, the ones you could hide equations in during exams .

Stationary shops still sold slide rules.

I don't remember any newspapers claiming the end of the world.

I've tried it out on various elements of the rather niche subject of my degree and there are LOTS of mistakes. I can identify those, but what about subjects that I can't? Am I meant to rely on it?

It isn't real folks, all the counselling you think you're getting is not from a genuine place of understanding or discrimination that can pick up on the clues human beings give face to face or even on the phone or internet.

I think some people pick up on the 'intelligence' bit but not the 'artificial'.

PS the Luddites actually had a point, when you consider what happened to the skilled working class post Industrial Revolution.

Thanks for the reply.

You did say though that it saved you weeks of work. I can't really see how that can be. Could you not just have found the school regs on google ? Perhaps searching for the rules referenced in the letter from the school.

More importantly I suppose, do you know if the answers you got were accurate ? If you had to research anyway to check the answers, why does that take less time than just doing the research in the first place ?

Sorry, not trying to be a luddite, genuinely interested.

I am in automation by trade (industrial), and I find todays perception of AI fascinating.

You stress your mental state at the time for example. Possible you are using that to justify using AI ?That's rhetorical of course, but on a deeper level, as you are an educated person, did your use of AI bring an aspect of internal " cheat" shame ? If you see what I mean.

And of course, the important part is, did your letter work?

I just find this really interesting.

No, I don't feel like a cheat at all- in fact I feel pleased I made a sensible, time saving decision to use AI.

I would have had no idea where to start with legislation. Page 1 of The Education Act?!

And yes it did. We got the positive change we fought for.

It isn't real folks, all the counselling you think you're getting is not from a genuine place of understanding or discrimination that can pick up on the clues human beings give face to face or even on the phone or internet.

I wonder if the impersonal nature of AI "counselling" might not be part of it's appeal for some.

As regards the accuracy of information I do look at other sources to try and crosscheck. I also have found the info I have been given to help with tech problems has always worked when I follow the advised steps.

The Luddites weren[t against new tech per se, they were against new tech being used to throw decent hardworking people on the scrapheap without consultation or support. And they were absolutely fucking right.

AI translation is all very well until it leaves the "not" out of treatment guidelines in a leaflet for cancer patients:

John flagged three crucial areas for health and public service contexts where AI/machine translation commonly fails:

1. Proper names: AI tends to mix, merge and blend elements of names (affecting the names of people, drugs, places etc.)
2. Numbers: Different numerical conventions across languages lead to significant AI errors with numbers
3. Negatives: AI struggles with double negative structures common in many languages, sometimes producing opposite meanings – translating ‘do’ as ‘do not’

A striking example from Prof Federici's research showed the risks of unchecked machine translation of cancer information, with "Don't stay at home if you develop a fever" being translated as "Do stay at home" - a potentially life-threatening error.

https://www.ciol.org.uk/ai-translation-uk-public-services

It[s like a calculator if a calculator was wrong up to 80% of the time

My calculator has never told me to kill myself

It's told you boobies though

Ok but if it did, would you? I'm guessing no, right? Even if you were in a very low place and a computer said "yes I really think suicide is your only option" I venture to suggest that to then think "righto then I will" is an issue with the human not the computer. Sorry I say this sensitively as any suicide for any reason is heartbreaking. But I think those with concerns need to direct it to campaigning hard for public education and regulations for humans to use AI as it was intended.

Humans unfortunately will misuse almost anything for harm... Fire, electricity, medicine... And yet we wouldn't be without these things. We just expect people to use them responsibly. This is no different imo.

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Anyone else used to make the numbers 'dance' on the slightly more modern calculators (circa 2010??) 😆

Yes so don't trust the calculator. Why are people trusting it? Why are people thinking AI knows any more than Google ?? It's just another tool to be used. Don't hit yourself in the head with a hammer then suggest hammers should be banned.🤷🏼‍♀️

Indeed. And that is perhaps a parallel situation to AI. Nothing new under the sun ....

I have just been using it to find out stuff about my father's military record. It has been very helpful.