• Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    I use ChatGPT to learn all kinds of stuff. I say it’s replaced 50% of my searches. Not that it’s always right, but neither is all the blogspam.

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          1 month ago

          Literally any thing that isn’t trained on blogspam or notorious for making up shit. You’re basically using a magic 8-ball to “learn” it just repeats what you say back at you. Its useless for research.

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          1 month ago

          Kagi+ChatGPT is getting me the quickest answers.

          If a human “expert” was a known liar and fantasist who never provided sources or footnotes - would you listen to them? And if you did - why?

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            29 days ago

            Does listening to them ulitmately get you to the correct answer more quickly on average than not? If so, why aren’t you talking to them?

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          1 month ago

          “I wave my arms blindly in the dark and every so often I touch something before tripping on the furniture”

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      I think people are overly critical - it is alright for some things, and it has gotten things right for me before, but generally I have to spend so much time double checking that it’s right that it isn’t worth the time. If it gets a detail wrong 10-15% of the time, then I have to check it every time.

      I do find it useful for admin tasks though.