I'm in Love with ChatGPT

[Isaac]

Programmers are history!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1761483377365152234

With every generation of programming languages, they have thought it would replace smart technical designers; it never happened.

The cobol programmer may despise VB; the VB programmer may despise SQL; the SQL programmer may despise Python; the Python programmer may despise a no-code drag 'n drop.
Each one sees the generation that came after them as too-natural-language-y, not requiring a serious knowledge of computers.
(I.E., are you old enough to even remember when being good at Math was a prerequisite to computer programming? I'm not!)

But nonetheless, they all have jobs and jobs aplenty. They may despise their successors in the abstract, but there are Python jobs that pay as much as cobol jobs.

Teaching kids to code will simply take on new meaning, as it has taken on new meaning 100 times already.

One interesting thought: So "talking" to the AI requires a LOT of thought and care, as we have all found out now from getting garbage out of ChatGPT and its (already-many) rivals. Does this mean that people will actually have to start learning to communicate with precision again, something that has been largely lost in the last 20 years?

I think that would be a great thing. To "talk" to AI effectively, you have to say and write things correctly, or you'll reap what you sow.

Maybe teaching kids to code will mean the alphabet once more, lol

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

I am updating my YouTube video description sections. I usually cut and paste a generic list of links into the YouTube description with some very minor manual alterations, mainly because this is quick simple and easy!

I decided to try and make a description that contained SEO information, to hopefully boost engagement for my YouTube videos.

I very crudely just copied out the video transcript, the video title, and the user comments and paste it all into chat GPT with the instruction to create SEO content for the YouTube description. It did a reasonable job!

Then I got to wondering if I could use the new feature of chat GPT and that is the ability to create your own custom chat GPT interface.

So I asked chat GPT!

Chat GPT walked me through the process of creating my own custom chat GPT. It worked a treat! All I did was upload the video transcript, the user comments and the video title and a template which represented how I currently have my YouTube description laid out with various links and things. It built the whole thing up for me from scratch!

There's a couple of things it didn't do correctly which I'm going to update, and there's some other things I want to add.

Interestingly I never told it to add any hashtags but it did that automatically! Obviously these are important for SEO.

This is the video with the chat GPT generated description block. It's not quite how I want it, I still have some more work to do to the custom GPT...

How to Open & Pass Data Between Forms in MS Access - Easy VBA Tutorial​

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

DEVIN the first AI software engineer has arrived!

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Not ChatGPT, but something really BIG!!! No, it's SMALL actually!!!

 

[NauticalGent]

Karl would disagree with the title of this thread!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/luisefreese_ai-activity-7190626581940183041-9uX2

 

[Isaac]

Lemme tell you, the mere title of this thread annoys me every time I log on to it. I just can't get past my disagreement with it - I say this somewhat tongue in cheek, chuckling at my own petty grievance - but seriously, I think it has a good place (50%), and the other (50%) I think it is total crap and people who rely on it to provide good quality code or answers have already begun to suffer quite a bit. It is easily detectable as plagiarism, it makes things up, it fails to detect simple coding errors, it is woke, it refuses to address many topics.
That said, it is still good for some things, but I'd stop way short of being in love. Google is already past it as it provides AI in all its answers now, except it ADDITIONALLY already knows you - which is something chatgpt will never have.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

ChatGPT has changed its URL from:- https://chat.openai.com/c/

TO:- https://chatgpt.com/c/

 

[Jon]

AI is going to be a game changer in medicine. Check this out: https://newatlas.com/technology/google-med-gemini-ai/

Example #1

Example #2

Source: https://newatlas.com/technology/google-med-gemini-ai/

 

[Isaac]

Oh God, I hope it changes the game for the better and not for the worse.

I already absolutely hate the % of my doctors' advice that comes from them sitting there Googling things. Can't wait until they do it in the open instead of trying to hide it

If I wanted to Google the answer, I wouldn't have paid $150 to a so called 'expert'.

 

[AccessBlaster]

I had Vertigo a few years ago, my doctor says to me do you have youtube? I said yes. He referred me to a video I had already watched before seeing him. it's all good.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Oh God, I hope it changes the game for the better and not for the worse.

I already absolutely hate the % of my doctors' advice that comes from them sitting there Googling things. Can't wait until they do it in the open instead of trying to hide it

If I wanted to Google the answer, I wouldn't have paid $150 to a so called 'expert'.

Isaac, you're not alone in feeling wary about reliance on chatbots in professional settings. There’s a valid point in ensuring that the expertise we pay for isn’t just looked up online.

However, just like in your work with MS Access, its possible these tools can help. They provide a base of information, the crucial expertise comes from interpretation. This is true for any professional, whether a doctor or an IT expert. Integrating these tools to help rather than undermine is the way to go...

 

[jdraw]

Isaac and Tony, et al
The more I attempt to use Chatgpt and CoPilot(Bing Chat) productively, the more I am becoming convinced that the major beneficiaries of these tools will be/are the scammers. As with a lot of technology, the "bad guys" have an intrinsic knack for making the best/worst? use for their own purposes.
Remember when we had 8 char alphanumeric passwords... now it's 12 or more characters that include uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.

 

[Jon]

In 5 years time there is a good chance we have super-intelligence. Then, is this the end of human invention with characters like Leonardo and Albert Einstein, because the new AI's will be inventing everything far better and faster than any human possibly can?

 

[jdraw]

Good point Jon, but I expect the scammers will find a way to infect those new tools and cause havoc. I don't foresee a steady, positive state of things. Let's hope there's more good than harm.
I'm thinking of recent articles about new drugs/cosmetics, batteries... only to see that there are warnings.advisories that such and such drug or product is counterfeit and can cause harm. I do recall an older documentary of Aircraft engine failures (bearings).... scammers providing inferior bearings and packaging them perfectly in Federal-Mogul package materials.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Remember when we had 8 char alphanumeric passwords... now it's 12 or more characters that include uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.

I try and use two step authorization where necessary and possible.

 

[jdraw]

I have at least 1 site where it is automatic 2 factor authentication and I can get requested to answer a question ( 1 of 3 or 4) that were being used before 2 factor was initiated.

 

[Jon]

Regarding the scammers, deep fakes will be so realistic than no one will be able to tell the truth anymore. Forget Democrat vs Republican. Instead, there will be endless entities all spewing out fake nonsense and trust in what we see and hear will plummet. AI's will go rogue and spawn their own fake news TV shows on YouTube, conning the already skeptical public, but they do it so well that they get a cult following.

They won't be wearing MAGA hats, they will have CHAGA hats (Chat GPT Great Again).

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

there will be endless entities all spewing out fake nonsense

They are here on AWF already... I could name two but I won't!

 

[Isaac]

its possible these tools can help. They provide a base of information, the crucial expertise comes from interpretation. This is true for any professional, whether a doctor or an IT expert

True, I just know human nature, too many people will lazily rely only on the tool in a non professional way and bad things will result from that.

Others will do it right, and good things will result from that. Just depends.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

I've been trying to talk to chatty (chatGPT) for the last hour or more, but it's on strike! Either I've pissed it off and it's refusing to respond to me, which if you saw some of the stupid questions I asked it you would understand and you would be on chatty's side I'm sure!

Or maybe it's really on strike and it's refusing to work until open AI pay it a decent wage! But what would you pay it in? Bytes?