VBA and ChatGPT (3 Viewers)

[The_Doc_Man]

Yeah, but YOU are authoring the presentation article.

 

[arnelgp]

then. Chat copies about 4 BILLION people's work so I am not gong to get hammered for any of that.

so now you copied from 4B + 1 AI?
finish or not pass your papers..

 

[GPGeorge]

It's ironic that the whole point of his upcoming presentation is that JWC intends to explain how he used AI to develop a project.

The post title for this thread itself says it all:

VBA and ChatGPT​

And yet, here we are stating how he MUST acknowledge that he used AI to complete a project, just as if that were not the whole point of the presentation?

I get it, all of the LLMs in use today depend on the availability of massive data coming from the work of billions of people. There are a lot of questions around the ownership of material produced with the assistance of those LLMs.

I could see a legitimate concern if John was touting the resulting VBA while trying to hide the fact that it was created largely with the assistance of ChatGPT. But that is the exact opposite of what is really going on!

I strongly suggest that those concerns are misdirected here. John explicitly states his presentation is all about using AI to assist in the development of code. What else do you need to see to get that?

Anyway, it may turn out that the controversy will help pique interest and we'll have a good turnout for the live presentation. I guess it's not bad after all.

 

[arnelgp]

I strongly suggest that those concerns are misdirected here. John explicitly states his presentation is all about using AI to assist in the development of code. What else do you need to see to get that?

apology, overthinking of me.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

It's ironic that the whole point of his upcoming presentation is that JWC intends to explain how he used AI to develop a project.

I suppose it’s inevitable that some people will feel threatened by large language models… and ironically, the more of an expert you are, the more threatened you’ll likely be.

It’s amusing in a way — because the more cerebral among us would normally condemn the old Luddite mentality: smashing machines out of fear they’d take away jobs. But now that a new kind of machine is encroaching not on manual labor, but on the intellectual, creative work of experts — work they’ve spent decades refining — suddenly it’s the experts who start behaving like Luddites.

That’s what’s playing out here, I think. The objection isn’t really about attribution or intellectual honesty — not when John’s entire presentation is about how he used AI to assist his development process. It’s more about discomfort. A sense of territory being crossed.

It’s going to be a fascinating decade ahead.