Using ChatGPT in college has made it so much easier

I may or may not have used it for some of my CS classes. >_>

But didn't over rely on it by any means.

Man, I wish I had this when I was in college. It wouldve made those BS writing classes so much more bearable

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You think there will be a crackdown in the future?

Hell, it makes my work life so much better, too. Instead of spending hours combing through documentation for an answer to something, an AI just does it for me.

Its a tool.

Like any tool, when used correctly, it can be extremely helpful. When used incorrectly, you can hurt yourself.

You think there will be a crackdown in the future?

I may or may not have used it for some of my CS classes. >_>

It wouldve made those BS writing classes so much more bearable

Man, I wish I had this when I was in college. It wouldve made those BS writing classes so much more bearable

So universities are gonna be pumping out folks who can't even write a couple paragraphs eh

Were doomed

So universities are gonna be pumping out folks who can't even write a couple paragraphs eh

Were doomed

Teachers were saying we were doomed when Wikipedia was a thing cuz apparently we wouldn't be able to find sources on our own lol

And now we have more poroly misinformation than ever before gaining traction among masses

They weren't wrong

Garbage in, garbage out. Universities werent exactly pumping out many competent writers before this,

and all that writing online is what GPT learns from.

Nah, that's just idiots in social media

Thats not what garbage in garbage out means.

Uh yes it does. GPT learns from mediocre writing

Uh yes it does. GPT learns from mediocre writing therefore its output is mediocre. In other words, the quality or accuracy of your output can only be as good as the data youre using is.

Well, its getting much better and fast. Youve likely used GPT 3-5 for the writing prompts. GPT 4 is an entirely different beast.. its good. Its actually really good. And it will only get better

Hopefully the universities implement AI that detects AI. Otherwise universities will become more pointless endeavors than they already tend to be.

Hopefully the universities implement AI that detects AI. Otherwise universities will become more pointless endeavors than they already tend to be.

Its going to screw over books and news papers to...humanity is rapidly going to be reduced to only a few sections and its going to suck for everyone but those on the top.

Uh, yes, GPT 4s training data contains good works, but it also contains a lot of bad ones. When theyre pulling from such a wide pool, theyre necessarily capturing a minority of really good things and a large majority of mediocre or bad things. Thats just how human production is. And the primary way OpenAI has advanced GPT iterations has been by simply expanding the data set.

When it comes to inputting prompts that will spit out a school essay in particular, most of the data for GPT to reference will be meh. Because GPT doesnt think, it cant look at a good reference work and a bad reference work and judge them apart. It can only listen to the prompt input and create the output that most closely matches that based on its training data.

I have ChatGPT 4 on my phone right now, I bought a month subscription to try with my job and write some JavaScript, and I found that up to maybe 40% of its lines would contain errors on first pass through. As one example.

i actually think what text transformers are probably best at is unfortunately that AI girlfriend stuff lol. This is where GPT blows our human minds because you basically can text it and it sounds like a person could be texting right back to you. By expanding context memory in new GPT iterations, it has gotten really good at remembering different traits, facts and history and thus continuing the appearance of a real conversation partner.

But for critical writing, GPT 4 still favors summary and obviously it cant really make new observations about a work. I tried it in a class I took on the 70s film to compare to my own, and personally if I had been a grading assistant I wouldve given the outputs I saw C+ or B- at best. Yes they can be coherent as if a persons writing, which is certainly an achievement on its own. But in my opinion it is not a beast. Granted, my standards arent those of some student trying to scrape by a required class.

Haven't tried using Copilot at all actually. It's similar I'm guessing?

And yeah for my coding assignments, I've generally done probably 90% of it on my own, then I'll end up getting stumped and will ask ChatGPT for help. Usually it ends up being that I was on the right track but I screwed up the execution somewhere along the way.

Yeah I never understood how some people would just use it to code their entire assignment and I'm like, dude. >_>

What will students do when they dont use AI but get accused of it anyway? Take it as a compliment?

So long as you dont use it to write papers or anything, cool beans?

but most schools are using tools to check for AI usage above and beyond just running something through TurnItIn now.

The ai, once its good enough, won't do that.

One thing that would be really useful would be feeding it company documents to create a sort of easy to access reference library.

"AI, what reports or internal research do we have relating to concrete properties and repair techniques after fire exposure? Who within the company is experienced in these types of projects?"

I'm surprised so many people find ChatGPT useful. So-called "hallucinations" are rampant. Like, I see people saying they are having ChatGPT teach them new things. If you don't already know about the thing, you won't spot the errors and will assimilate false information. Summarizing long documents is also problematic for the same reason. If you haven't read the document, how many of the mistakes will you catch? Helping you rewrite a paragraph or two makes sense, or maybe help with form letters, but having it write papers for you is a terrible idea from a learning and personal growth standpoint.

Now OpenAI has the data from your company documents.

Do you think that would be more useful than internal company wiki or database?

I'm surprised so many people find ChatGPT useful. So-called "hallucinations" are rampant. Like, I see people saying they are having ChatGPT teach them new things. If you don't already know about the thing, you won't spot the errors and will assimilate false information. Summarizing long documents is also problematic for the same reason. If you haven't read the document, how many of the mistakes will you catch? Helping you rewrite a paragraph or two makes sense, or maybe help with form letters, but having it write papers for you is a terrible idea from a learning and personal growth standpoint.

This. As far as I can tell, the AI chatbots are the most efficient way known to provide high volumes of plausible bullshit.

It will be remarkable to see what fraction of the economy is driven by efficient production of high volumes of plausible bullshit.

But I can't see chatbots being useful for anything that requires understanding.

I may or may not have used it for some of my CS classes. >_>

But didn't over rely on it by any means.