Chat GPT is amazing

[superrific]

I engaged it in a fairly long chat about a variety of things, and then asked it to assess my personality. Here's what it came back with. It strikes me as quite accurate, though I'm curious if others perceive me that way. Here's what it says (I have paraphrased for formatting but most of the language is lifted directly):

I notice rule structures that others miss; I don't default to shared cognitive assumptions; I'm more faithful to internal logic than social logic, I'm extremely good at constructing abstract models often without awareness that others find them strange; and that my "core gift" is that I "can follow a line of reasoning further than almost anyone else."

Anyone who has used ChatGPT knows that it fluffs the user, so I'm not taking the "almost anyone else" part seriously. But the others, if you remove the hints of fluffery, strike me as pretty accurate and it's really quite amazing that ChatGPT can pick up on that. Or maybe it's just repeating my self-delusions that I've unknowingly embedded into the discussion.

Anyone else use ChatGPT as a personal sounding board? Like, I'm wondering if it's going to start putting therapists out of work. Or at least psych evaluators.

 

[4thgenheel]

very interesting.

i don't use it often due to the significant energy consumption but one of my best friends uses the hell out of it for work stuff, personal stuff, you name it and has been pushing me to use it more.

 

[circlesky88]

Never used it once

 

[Huh?]

I'm surprised it didn't intuit your warm, winning smile. That tells me it's not very sophisticated...

 

[superrific]

very interesting.

i don't use it often due to the significant energy consumption but one of my best friends uses the hell out of it for work stuff, personal stuff, you name it and has been pushing me to use it more.

I'm writing a novel and it's been super helpful for me. I bounce ideas off it, especially technical ideas related to the science-y part of my soft sci-fi.

 

[Bigs23]

I'm writing a novel and it's been super helpful for me. I bounce ideas off it, especially technical ideas related to the science-y part of my soft sci-fi.

The times I’ve used it I’ve found it to be pretty amazing.

 

[superrific]

I'm surprised it didn't intuit your warm, winning smile.

I have bad teeth. Intuition would be wrong.

 

[StrangePackage]

I don't care to consort with those of the robot race.

 

[Bobfripp]

It does a great job with creating AI imagery as well. I thought it was just for text questions and answers, but it'll do this ...



If you upload a photo it can work with. It's got mad skillz!

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

If you need to go ten feet, it’s amazing for the first 2-3 feet. Then you have to lace up your shoes and walk the remaining distance on your own. This is disappointing because all the hype and the marketing make you think it can carry you the whole way.

It’s a really awesome search engine at the moment. The flufferfy is incredibly annoying and transparent.

 

[Bobfripp]

If you need to go ten feet, it’s amazing for the first 2-3 feet. Then you have to lace up your shoes and walk the remaining distance on your own. This is disappointing because all the hype and the marketing make you think it can carry you the whole way.

It’s a really awesome search engine at the moment. The flufferfy is incredibly annoying and transparent.

It would help if ChatGPT could help point you to the sites where it retrieved/learned the data it presents, so you can 'walk the remaining distance on your own.' I'm in academia (neuroscience), and sometimes ChatGPT is helpful to get a summary of theories I'm less familiar with (as is Wikipedia), but in the end I need the original material to quote, or to better understand, the theories.

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

It would help if ChatGPT could help point you to the sites where it retrieved/learned the data it presents, so you can 'walk the remaining distance on your own.' I'm in academia (neuroscience), and sometimes ChatGPT helpful to get a summary of theories I'm less familiar with (as is Wikipedia), but in the end I need the original material to quote, or to better understand, the theories.

Some of the others do this, like grok I think? Been jumping between four different ones (ChatGPT, grok, perplexity, Gemini) and I know at least one links you to the main sources

 

[Duke Mu]

ChatGPT cheats if asked too difficult a question, including making up reference

Be Careful... ChatGPT Appears to be Making up Academic References

ChatGPT caught referencing non-existing academic papers. It was able to explain the paper but on investigation...

oxford-review.com

ChatGPT produces made-up nonexistent references | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

How Well Does ChatGPT Handle Reference Inquiries? An Analysis Based on Question Types and Question Complexities | Lai | College & Research Libraries

 

[Bobfripp]

ChatGPT cheats if asked too difficult a question, including making up reference

Be Careful... ChatGPT Appears to be Making up Academic References

ChatGPT caught referencing non-existing academic papers. It was able to explain the paper but on investigation...

oxford-review.com

ChatGPT produces made-up nonexistent references | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

How Well Does ChatGPT Handle Reference Inquiries? An Analysis Based on Question Types and Question Complexities | Lai | College & Research Libraries

I mostly use PubMed and it's increasingly using AI, but still could be better.

 

[HesNaughtHere]

I haven't found it very useful for helping me write scientific papers, in fact it has outright fabricated citations for papers that don't exist before, but it's been useful in my coding applications.

I only have low-to-intermediate Python coding skills, but everything my work uses is in R (which I had zero experience with). I've been able to use ChatGPT to jump right into using R at a similar, if not higher, level as what I used to do in Python. It's nothing too, too complicated, but it definitely speeds up my work considerably.