Chat GPT

[Trynna3]

I became accustomed to asking this bot a lot of questions, that including troubleshooting the computer, or understanding various computer related terms and issues. It isn't always accurate, but most of the time it helped me to understand a lot of things in a matter of seconds.
I wanted to ask: how common it is among people here to consult this bot? I don't call it AI, because in my view it is more artificial than intelligent, but yeah, whatever.

Do you consult this tool a lot? Because I do. It even helped me with some stata codes which I would be looking for for ages on various forums.

 

[Brickwizard]

simply no, this is my answer to a similar question

Personally, I don't think AI is intelligent enough at the moment, if you read some output from AI assisted post, it is often dated, and often dangerously so, at the moment they [to me] seem to act as glorified screen scrapers and compilers, they cannot think laterally

 

[osprey]

I became accustomed to asking this bot a lot of questions, that including troubleshooting the computer, or understanding various computer related terms and issues. It isn't always accurate, but most of the time it helped me to understand a lot of things in a matter of seconds.
I wanted to ask: how common it is among people here to consult this bot? I don't call it AI, because in my view it is more artificial than intelligent, but yeah, whatever.

Do you consult this tool a lot? Because I do. It even helped me with some stata codes which I would be looking for for ages on various forums.

There are a number of AI sites that have been useful here: Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity. They have provided info on configuration, code, errors and then a lot of more general queries. If one is not so helpful, often another is. Asking the same question to the one AI site often provides different answers, so persistence can work sometimes to get an answer that is satisfactory. Not all queries get satisfactory answers, but most have for users here. I guess it depends a lot on the questions one asks.

 

[TheProf]

I use Copilot for work often for code stuff, helps me get things done fast.

I will also use ChatGPT from time to time, but it is mostly acting as my search tool. You cant rely on the answers 100%, you need to validate what ChatGPT says, but it does make finding and doing things a lot faster.

To me, its not really intelligence, I look at it as an advanced autocomplete / search tool.

 

[Trynna3]

I use Copilot for work often for code stuff, helps me get things done fast.

I will also use ChatGPT from time to time, but it is mostly acting as my search tool. You cant rely on the answers 100%, you need to validate what ChatGPT says, but it does make finding and doing things a lot faster.

To me, its not really intelligence, I look at it as an advanced autocomplete / search tool.

One time I even uninstalled copilot from my win10 Pro. Then afraid it could mess up the system I reverted back to the restore point I made beforehand.

 

[blunix]

I use it daily and LOVE IT. MASSIVELY accelerated my work. I often just ask it for inspiration, like "I want to write a linux blogpost, suggestions for topics?"

You want to try this:

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
ollama run dolphin-mixtral

and other models supported by ollama. it'll be faster but it'll run on your laptops GPU / CPU.

 

[Vimmer]

For general information, i generally see GPT or gemini as a last resort. Search engines give you a bunch of results varying in accuracy right away, when the search engine just doesn't get it, ill ask gemini and it can usually answer commonly known questions with accuracy.

For programming questions, my ordering is this:

1. Try to remember or logically fix the issue.

2. Search engine.

3. Chat GPT.

And usually, my thought process with that is like what i described with gemini: if the search engine isn't pulling up answers to what i need to know, or articles about very similar things that might have the answer, then the super-modern chat bots can clear things up for me a high % of the time.

 

[Trenix25]

I've been using the co-pilot on Bing every now and then. It's basically a glorified search engine, but often pretty helpful. It helped to point me in the right direction to understanding routing between local subnets. I've tried ChatGPT and gave up on it. Perhaps it's a little better now, who knows. Bing's co-pilot can be kind of limited though. It won't help with cybersecurity issues. It is problematic that I am only allowed so many questions per session.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[abmvk]

I tested co-pilot and gemini and didn't like them. ChatGPT I use a lot, version 4.0 (so paid).

Debugging code provided by ChatGPT can be a hell of a job, but most of the time I get helpful answers. In my experience ChatGPT is really useful in helping understand both Linux, C and Rust related questions. It also is remarkable good in research into companies I need to do for my work.

It is much worse in both old and new systems. Questions about my ZX Spectrum Next or my TRS 80, well, let's say I don't use ChatGPT there.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

I use Copilot for work often for code stuff, helps me get things done fast.

Not surprisingly there already exists a ton of free and free to try alternatives to MS copilot for coding help, and most of them (at least for me) are pretty much annoying and not good enough, I don't know how good copilot is but it's great to see alternatives exist.

I hope free alternatives to improve over time and become decent enough to rely on for coding.

 

[provision]

I became accustomed to asking this bot a lot of questions, that including troubleshooting the computer, or understanding various computer related terms and issues. It isn't always accurate, but most of the time it helped me to understand a lot of things in a matter of seconds.
I wanted to ask: how common it is among people here to consult this bot? I don't call it AI, because in my view it is more artificial than intelligent, but yeah, whatever.

Do you consult this tool a lot? Because I do. It even helped me with some stata codes which I would be looking for for ages on various forums.

Well you know how Google makes us dumber since 2 decades already.
Google this google dat, don't use your head to even think on an engineering problem just google it because somebody solved it already

This is taking humanity to the next level, degeneration to ape category.
At the end chatgpt will decide what will you eat for breakfast as well.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Well you know how Google makes us dumber since 2 decades already.

Would you rather look up everything in an encyclopedia or phone book or dtf format book?

 

[GatorsFan]

Have not used any AI myself as of yet, but may if I cannot find the answer any other way

 

[AlphaObeisance]

When it comes to AI, you have three kinds of people.

A: Those who know nothing of it.

B: Those who tried it but didn't know how to properly engage with it to get relevant information and output, and find it useless.

C: Those of us who use AI on a daily basis to drastically expedite workflow and education.

Ultimately, AI (in it's current state) is a glorified search engine, and when prompted properly; yields the same results as Google or any other major search engine but in a conversational tone.

(P.S. There's also Z: Those who think (credibly so) GPT<AGI<SKYNET= Goodbye)

 

[Trynna3]

Would you rather look up everything in an encyclopedia or phone book or dtf format book?

Or send a letter to the production and ask for a catalogue

 

[AlphaObeisance]

Or send a letter to the production and ask for a catalogue

Ya'll are too progressive for me. I'll stick to sending and receiving documentation via pigeon. Dang whipper snappers and all their new tech.

 

[GatorsFan]

When it comes to AI, you have three kinds of people.

A: Those who know nothing of it.

B: Those who tried it but didn't know how to properly engage with it to get relevant information and output, and find it useless.

C: Those of us who use AI on a daily basis to drastically expedite workflow and education.

Ultimately, AI (in it's current state) is a glorified search engine, and when prompted properly; yields the same results as Google or any other major search engine but in a conversational tone.

(P.S. There's also Z: Those who think (credibly so) GPT<AGI<SKYNET= Goodbye)

I would add D

D. Those that know that all AIs spy on you and do not use them

Military-grade AI may now be used to spy on American civilians

The use of this technology is thus far unregulated.

interestingengineering.com

AI Isn't Magic, It's Being Used to Spy on You, Experts Warn

Experts warned that AI's autonomy is just a "veneer," and that it's being used as surveillance through the scraped data it needs to train on.

futurism.com

How is One of America's Biggest Spy Agencies Using AI? We're Suing to Find Out. | ACLU

AI tools have the potential to expand the National Security Agency’s surveillance dragnet more than ever before. The public deserves to know how the government is using these tools.

www.aclu.org

Due to AI, “We are about to enter the era of mass spying,” says Bruce Schneier

Schneier: AI will enable a shift from observing actions to interpreting intentions, en masse.

arstechnica.com

 

[Trynna3]

I would add D

D. Those that know that all AIs spy on you and do not use them

Which is irrelevant for me as I don't share any sensitive data with them, don't upload sensitive documents, don't plan a murder, so all they can spy on is my interest on many topics and that I keep learning. And tell them off for writing nonsense. Twice I now asked whether I can remove some of its text as I don't need it anymore, but it kept printing advice, repeatedly, which I already fixed. Never answering the actual question. The GPT 3.5 certainly has a few blind spots. I am learning about it as much as it learns about me LOL.

 

[AlphaObeisance]

I would add D

D. Those that know that all AIs spy on you and do not use them

Military-grade AI may now be used to spy on American civilians

The use of this technology is thus far unregulated.

interestingengineering.com

AI Isn't Magic, It's Being Used to Spy on You, Experts Warn

Experts warned that AI's autonomy is just a "veneer," and that it's being used as surveillance through the scraped data it needs to train on.

futurism.com

How is One of America's Biggest Spy Agencies Using AI? We're Suing to Find Out. | ACLU

AI tools have the potential to expand the National Security Agency’s surveillance dragnet more than ever before. The public deserves to know how the government is using these tools.

www.aclu.org

Due to AI, “We are about to enter the era of mass spying,” says Bruce Schneier

Schneier: AI will enable a shift from observing actions to interpreting intentions, en masse.

arstechnica.com

Applicable entirely to those unable to self host to any reasonable capacity. Agreed.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

I would add D

D. Those that know that all AIs spy on you and do not use them

It's an obvious proof on how the AI will be used for non-benevolent purposes, spying, military etc.
And as such the AI does pose a threat already in it's early stages.