To think ChatGPT is the best thing ever?

[ColliLass]

So far it has:

sorted a problem with my emails that I would never EVER have been able to work out
Found a book I haven’t been able to remember for years
diagnosed a problem on the car and accurately estimated the probable cost
found recipes

and many many more little helpful day to day offerings when i can’t remember things or I wonder things.

I loathe the AI videos and pictures that seem to be everywhere but ChatGPT is amazing.

It’s great! It cuts out so much rubbish online. I feel it has helped lots with hobbies and the basics. For example, I’ve used it for baking recently (I’m not a good baker) instead of confusing myself with reading various recipes on blogs where the instructions become confusing mid process, every time I ran into an issue, chat chippy tea was there with much needed reassurance and directions. Who knew lemon juice corrected over sweet buttercream!

I think in ten years time instead of people saying 'Google it', they will say 'ChatGPT it.

In the bigger picture though, I'm terrified at the affect that AI is gonna have on the job market over the next ten years.

Until it isn't. It very confidently lies to you, including about its own capabilities.
It failed to find an author of a poem despite me quoting the poem in full. I found it in under a second by typing it into Google.
Misdiagnosed my car despite the picture of the warning alert. Again, corrected by doing a simple image search in Google.
It can't do any form of maths at all.
It confidently told me it can provide transcript of an audio file and then told me it can't do that when I uploaded the file.

The list goes on...

Isn't it bad for the environment? Can't remember where I read that...or dreamed it...

I agree, it’s amazing and I find myself asking it questions all the time - however, you do have to challenge it often.

I recently got it to match my skin with a foundation shade, something I really struggle with. I uploaded a pic of me without make up, plus the choice of shades. It matched perfectly and I’m so pleased with the results.

Chat chippy tea is a superb auto correct 😆

No, it’s not the best thing ever. It’s just a glorified Google for the terminally stupid.

It’s also used to create even more spam posts on here than ever before.

Yeah the data centres consume so much energy.

It gets things wrong all the time. I work with the public and the incorrect pretend legal slop they send us is infuriating as we then have to spend time explaining how chat gpt has got it wrong.

diagnosed a problem on the car and accurately estimated the probable cost

😂 Thanks for the laugh.

It doesn't have brains, it just searches the web, which is full of inaccurate information.

I have used it for some complicated legal issues and it has been amazing,

And use up huge amounts of water.

It’s great, but it will change jobs and unemployment will rise. We use it work to do all meeting minutes meaning really we could lose two staff members.
it frequently gets things wrong but it’s helped with my loss like nothing ever has before!

Hahaha... no. I work in employment law and it seems to tell everyone they have a valid claim for constructive dismissal. They almost never do. It's become a bit of an in-joke amongst my colleagues.

I have cancer and it has given me a prognosis of 2 to 4 years, I hope I’ve got longer than that.

I totally agree.

I love it - I've used it for coding problems and help with Excel spreadsheets - it got everything spot on and correct.

I checked some legal stuff with it- then verified it was correct - it was all perfectly correct.

I've used it as a sounding board for my feelings and asked it challenge me- it did so perfectly in a really supportive manner.

I've used it to help me make more money and I have made more money.

I love it- of course it has to be used responsibly but thats like anything in life, eg. cars need to be used responsibly otherwise they can be dangerous but we dont suggest cars shouldnt have been invented.

The problem with this sort of use though is that the people who actually made the content it's feeding you (about baking and so on) are now unable to monetise it. Your click through to their blog about buttercream is why the blog exists. It's stealing all this content and ultimately it won't exist anymore to steal.

At the moment we're in a bit of a golden age because it's not been around long enough to mean there's no point in blogging about baking so the stuff it's stealing is up to date.

No. It’s awful. Not just environmentally, but the info it gives isn’t always accurate. Use your actual brain.

I've never actually had a correct answer out of it. It once told me a character in the TV show I was watching died of lung cancer in season 4. Given I was currently watching the episode about his wedding in season 6...

It's destroying the environment to churn lies to questions you could answer with a halfway competent Google search. But since it fawns all over you and acts like you are ever so special people fall for it.

I'm in news publishing and my version of this is that it tells everyone they have a GDPR or privacy claim. We now get these very long and wrong legal letters from people about their name having been in the papers.

I’m an employment lawyer and I now see more AI generated correspondence than human written. And it’s so frequently wrong!

I’ve also noticed an increase in people “needing” a copy of any questions that their employer wants to ask them before any meeting… so they can chat GPT their responses… it’s honestly ridiculous.

I had a client recently who needed to sack someone in probation as they were absolutely useless at the job - I ran her written post interview assessment through an AI checker and it was 100% AI generated…

and it drives me batty when clients run my advice/documents through chat gpt and email me to tell me I’m wrong because the robot says so. Meaning I then have to spend time that I usually don’t have explaining exactly why their AI assessment is incorrect. It’s so tedious!

I asked it to help with a Scrabble move recently - sent it into a weird loop which it kept apologising for but couldn’t stop! I had to tell it to stop trying to find the answer 🤣

It’s really good. We’re off to Turkey soon in our campervan. I asked ChatGPT to plot a printable route giving ‘things to see’ in each country on the route. Fabulous response.

I'd love you to come back and update us on how it actually went...if the route is accurate, safe, takes whatever needs you have into account. Until you test it you won't know.