I started using ChatGPT-4 last night for fun and I’ve been blown away by the potential. What are your thoughts? Have you used it?
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- I use it all the time to polish up my writing and also to create content ideas for my blog. It's actually a time saver. I like it!
- Great to read through this thread, thanks for prompting!@Alexandra (Lex) Hearth , would love to know more about your experience of using ChatGPT to create audience avatars!
- @Vickie Ward thanks for clarifying.
- @Louisa Tan this is what I was trying to explain, for coding, chatgpt is pretty useless because it grabs code snippets out of context and strings them together. ChatGPT code looks credible but doesn’t compile.
- @Louisa Tan writing software, my previous reply, is coding.
- @Vickie Ward did you try using it for coding? I have no experience in coding but have been looking at people using it to develop apps for them. Love the sound of your app!
- @Louisa Tan, initially I was a bit taken with the idea of educating the robot as it might have lots of knock on goodness, helping others, etc, but I've decided that I don't want to use my time to teach a robot. My app is going to help with climate change and reduce antimicrobial resistance, so I've decided that it is more important to get that app out into the world. Sounds arrogant, I know, but I only mean this in the context that either my life is about educating a robot that 'might' or might not help others, or directly helping others.
- @Vickie Ward that’s really interesting. I’ve found my results to be really useful but I can see we’re using it in very different ways! Tbh I quite like the ‘educating’ side of it but I think that’s because I’m looking for a specific output rather than using it as a research tool. Thanks so much for sharing with me!
- I tried it for writing software (Apple’s SwiftUI) and was hugely impressed by the first answer, but as I drilled down, I quickly found it was wrong about most of what it told me. Its constant apologies for stuff that didn’t compile and all of my Google searches to work out why ChatGPT had given me that particular answer led me to conclude that all it does a sophisticated Google search and draw conclusions based on things that look most likely. However it seems to be style over substance and I got tired of educating it. I’ve returned to just using Google to look things up, it is faster and I can determine whether an answer is appropriate or accurate.
- I’m now using Bard by Google and it’s amazing. Huge potential indeed!
- @Alexandra (Lex) Hearth that’s really interesting. I’ve been using it in a similar way but also seeing how the quality of the prompts really impact on the quality of output: the more specific I am, the better it is. I still think writing and editing are two big skills to be able to use it well. Have you seen people building apps from it? Very excited to explore this too.
- @Louisa Tan likewise! So I'd hoped it would help me pull trending topics and news for a new newsletter I'm looking to launch. However (as it told me) it's unable to do that as its data is pulled from further back than that. Things I've found it can do well: creating audience avatars, writing factual copy (when my brain isn't working fast enough), writing to do lists to get you to an end point, idea generation. What have you found?
- @Alexandra (Lex) Hearth tell me more! Really want to push it to see where it can go. I’ve been thinking of it/using it like a ‘junior staff member’ but so interested to know how other people are using it and in what industries.
- I've used it and got so excited, but then discovered that what I really wanted to use it for, it couldn't do.Some things however - definitely a time saver and thought partner!
- Yes. I used it. We can get 3 para answers quickly.
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