r/ChatGPT Nov 04 '24

Got myself the paid version and now I'm hooked. Other

As the title says... I'm hooked. I use it for work and personal purposes. It's insane. It can be a friend, a therapist, a mentor, a tutor, just everything. What are some other creative ways of using gpt?

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u/AtreidesOne Nov 05 '24

The bit after the "and" is key. So many people just ask some dumb questions they'd ask of Google, see it make a mistake, then write it off as a silly toy.

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u/Bbkobeman Nov 05 '24

I feel personally attacked. I love the dad jokes though.

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u/SimonBarfunkle Nov 05 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

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u/Tomato496 Nov 05 '24

And the more you understand its limitations, the more you can work with it. I was asking it to analyze a batch of similar documents, and I noticed that after the first few, it became less and less reliable. For the first batch, I spent a lot of time reviewing the documents myself and overwriting the errors. For the second batch, I asked why it was making errors, and it said that it was an issue of "context drift" -- when it analyzes a batch of similar documents, after the first three or five, it starts to mix them up. So now I save my prompts in a separate document and then start a new session after every four that it analyzes. So I can't feed it everything all at once and have it produce reliable work in an instant. But it's still way faster than me analyzing every document for myself.

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u/SimonBarfunkle Nov 05 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

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u/bronterac Nov 05 '24

Remember reading a quote around here about "this is the worst it'll be".... that really sank in. It'll only get better.

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u/shart-attack1 Nov 05 '24

I did that, but I didn’t write it off as a silly toy, its like when I was a teenager opening limewire and then suddenly I cannot think of a single song to download, I open chat gpt now thinking it’s going to change my life and I’m like “tell me a joke”

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u/Altruistic_OpSec Nov 05 '24

Right when they ask it what’s the weather? or can you tell me when the sun‘s going to set? a piece of me dies inside. That's what Alexa is for. Poor Alexa. Bless Her heart.

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u/BeardedSwashbuckler Nov 05 '24

It stops making mistakes if you pay money? Lol

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u/ThrowRASkee5555 Nov 05 '24

Is this a question or an answer?

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u/BeardedSwashbuckler Nov 05 '24

It’s a question followed by a laugh.