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"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
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I'm saying ChatGPT is not useless.
I'm a senior software engineer and I make use of it several times a week either directly or via things built on top of it. Yes you can't trust it will be perfect, but I can't trust a junior engineer to be perfect either—code review is something I've done long before AI and will continue to do long into the future.
I empirically work quicker with it than without and the engineers I know who are still avoiding it work noticeably slower. If it was useless this would not be the case.
In this and other use cases I call it a pretty effective search engine, instead of scrolling through stackexchange after clicking between google ads, you get the cleaned up example code you needed. Not a Chat with any intelligence though.
That ChatGPT can be more useful than a web search is really more indicative of how bad the web has got, and can only get worse as fake text invades it. It's not actually better than a functional search engine and a functional web, but the companies making these things have no interest in the web being usable. Pretty depressing.
Totally agree, you're preaching to the choir here (I'm amused at this being the first time I'm receiving downvotes but I'm glad it's because I might have sounded like a slop AI apologist)
Those few people I know that find chatgpt at the same time incredible and very useful, are using the official app from their iphone, just to give you an idea. If they knew how to search the web 20 years ago they forgot it. And the web has worsened a lot in the meantime as you said. One of them was complaining to me a few months ago how it was considering incresing his subscription level or something, and that he needed it to get ahead at work, while I was trying to explain to him that at best it's regurgitated stuff, no smarts are there, and I don't think down the line he's gonna really save time (what's very sad is that he wants to use it to help him write medical research papers)