• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    ChatGPT is a tool. Use it for tasks where the cost of verifying the output is correct is less than the cost of doing it by hand.

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      6 hours ago

      Honestly, I’ve found it best for quickly reformatting text and other content. It should live and die as a clerical tool.

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      5 hours ago

      Youre still doing it by hand to verify in any scientific capacity. I only use ChatGPT for philosophical hypotheticals involving the far future. We’re both wrong but it’s fun for the back and forth.

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        It is not true in general that verifying output for a science-related prompt requires doing it by hand, where “doing it by hand” means putting in the effort to answer the prompt manually without using AI.

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          25 minutes ago

          You can get pretty in the weeds with conversions on ChatGPT in the chemistry world or even just basic lab work where a small miscalculation at scale can cost thousands of dollars or invite lawsuits.

          I check against actual calibrated equipment as a verification final step.

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            I said not true in general. I don’t know much about chemistry. It may be more true in chemistry.

            Coding is different. In many situations it can be cheap to test or eyeball the output.

            Crucially, in nearly any subject, it can give you leads. Nobody expects every lead to pan out. But leads are hard to find.

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              18 minutes ago

              I imagine ChatGPT and code is a lot like air and water.

              Both parts are in the other part. Meaning llm is probably more native at learning reading and writing code than it is at interpreting engineering standards worldwide and allocation the exact thread pitch for a bolt you need to order thousands of. Go and thread one to verify.

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                13 minutes ago

                This is possibly true due to the bias of the people who made it. But I reject the notion that because ChatGPT is made of code per se that it must understand code better than other subjects. Are humans good at biology for this reason?

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                  6 minutes ago

                  You might know better than me. If you ask ChatGPT to write the code for itself I have no way to verify it. You would.