@Gargron I'm interested in it as a code generator. "Write unit tests for this function." "Generate BUILD files for this code."

@Gargron yep, a fake news machine. Anybody thought about feeding the chat bot’s stuff to an AI painting engine?

@Gargron I also found it very unhelpful for dealing with telemarketers. 😁

@Gargron I disagree. For an ML model to be able to generate prose on essentially any topic under the sun that can reliably pass as human-authored? That's incredibly impressive! 'Useful' on the other hand . . .

@Gargron That's kinda what I was thinking! Thank you for confirming!

@Gargron You can as also about sources from #ChatGPT :)

@Gargron i havn't give it a try yet, seems like it can do lots of people work

@Gargron oh i like this take

@Gargron

An unreliable search engine is as good as it gets, I guess, if it's "a potential absolute limit on the whole practice of language modeling."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/openais-gigantic-gpt-3-hints-at-the-limits-of-language-models-for-ai/

@Gargron as opposed to human "experts" who never get things wrong?

@Gargron it's like using Google's "I feel lucky" button, and then forcing yourself to use whatever answer it gives.

@Gargron I tend to disagree. No search engine I'm aware of comes up with a Monty Python Sketch about Mastodon and Twitter:

https://chaos.social/@rstockm/109456782032193274

@Gargron what is gpt ? 🤔

@Gargron it's really good at NLP tasks, though

@Gargron I think you might be missing the point of it, it's not supposed to be search engine.

@Gargron more than that for me. It helped me (and saved many many many hours) by creating initial unit tests and documentation for my code.

@Gargron tbh in any search engine you cannot tell how reliable the source is. You have a very valid point in saying that in a traditional search engine it is more obvious what the source is.

Do not forget, anyway, google for example is trying to embed answers to questions into its own page so traffic does not leave google. This is the same toxic trend.

@Gargron Exactly. It's bound to have an agenda more overarching than just interpreting and helping to reduce man hours.

@Gargron also very efficient for social occasions where you need some perfunctory poetry