This was a fascinating and extremely useful article. I am on Team ChatGPT Is a Good Thing, Actually, but the only examples of its benefits come from fields I already know--writing and education. (Derek Thompson at the Atlantic has some good articles on this aspect of the bot.) But you are showing us that there is a huge potential field most of us aren’t even aware of, where the bot will save time and money, all while freeing humans to perform the kind of work we do best. I really enjoyed this article (and read most of it aloud to my data-scientist-mathematician husband, who enjoyed it too)!
I find it incredibly useful. The caveat is just understanding what it is and what it's good at. If I can take your analogy further, when I use my moka pot I don't put milk in it. It can't make me a cappuccino. It just facilitates part of the process. That doesn't mean it sucks.
Glad to see someone standing up for wht I find to be one of my favorite tools I use.
Another very interesting piece. I am blown away by how well it writes code. There's sometimes something *off* about the text it produces for human consumption. But it can still work because its meaning is proximal. It surprises me that the code it makes is so functional! Can definitely see a ton of B2B use cases for this!
Think of all the different meanings a simple English word can have. Take the word "deal".
It can mean anything from "we have reached agreement!" to "these are the terms of our agreement!" to "lay out the cards" "this is the lay of the land" to "you have no choice but to learn to live with this" and several other meanings, more, once you throw in prepositions and the like.
I am yet to see AI that can reliably distinguish between these subtleties, even though chatBot has a certain cold reading advantage, in that it only reacts to prompts given and can take clues from those prompts. But a native speaker can reliably and effortlessly navigate this and hundreds more such words, even with typos, mangled syntax and all.
I really enjoyed this -- it’s informative and it’s got a lot of good one-liners too! :)
Kindle Unlimited ... coffee/bleach/hammer... hockey/Chaucer! Etc.
Loved it!
This was a fascinating and extremely useful article. I am on Team ChatGPT Is a Good Thing, Actually, but the only examples of its benefits come from fields I already know--writing and education. (Derek Thompson at the Atlantic has some good articles on this aspect of the bot.) But you are showing us that there is a huge potential field most of us aren’t even aware of, where the bot will save time and money, all while freeing humans to perform the kind of work we do best. I really enjoyed this article (and read most of it aloud to my data-scientist-mathematician husband, who enjoyed it too)!
I find it incredibly useful. The caveat is just understanding what it is and what it's good at. If I can take your analogy further, when I use my moka pot I don't put milk in it. It can't make me a cappuccino. It just facilitates part of the process. That doesn't mean it sucks.
Glad to see someone standing up for wht I find to be one of my favorite tools I use.
Another very interesting piece. I am blown away by how well it writes code. There's sometimes something *off* about the text it produces for human consumption. But it can still work because its meaning is proximal. It surprises me that the code it makes is so functional! Can definitely see a ton of B2B use cases for this!
Think of all the different meanings a simple English word can have. Take the word "deal".
It can mean anything from "we have reached agreement!" to "these are the terms of our agreement!" to "lay out the cards" "this is the lay of the land" to "you have no choice but to learn to live with this" and several other meanings, more, once you throw in prepositions and the like.
I am yet to see AI that can reliably distinguish between these subtleties, even though chatBot has a certain cold reading advantage, in that it only reacts to prompts given and can take clues from those prompts. But a native speaker can reliably and effortlessly navigate this and hundreds more such words, even with typos, mangled syntax and all.
You had me at "it will write your regex for you" <swoons>