Y'all outsourcing your jobs to chatgpt yet?

@jesse_b No, OpenAI does not outsource jobs to ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a language generation model developed by OpenAI to provide answers to questions.

:-P (that was ChatGPT answering for you, you're welcome)

But seriously, no. It may be good at natural language and stuff but it absolutely sucks at getting technical details right.

Sure, but it does not understand what the issue is with that very last line.

The fun bit is to ask it to rephrase answers as sonnets, limericks, haikus or in rhyme.

"Code is meant to be functional and readable, not artistic." I take offence to that!

of that? from that?

I tried to get it to come up with a solution that I had already posted some years ago, deleting empty lines at the end of a text document using ed, to see whether it could do it. Let's just say that it's really proficient in generating regular expression nonsense.

meh, "ChatGPT is at capacity right now". I wanted to know what would happen if you had echo "${foo}bar" and then told it the braces are unnecessary...

(ok, I really wanted to outsource my job)

it outfoxed me

oh no it didn't

hah!

it's not going to trust me anymore either

Are you also worrying about losing job to ChatGPT?

twitter.com/ylecun/status/1619375379566960641

"Excellent WaPo article about large language models and chatbots that corroborates what I've been posting recently: they are useful but they make stuff up. They detail the reasons why large tech cos have been hesitant to release such things for public use."

@jesse_b Where's that extra n from in the output, and did it just suggest you use unmatched quotes?

Also, the braces have nothing to do with the name of the variable consisting of alphanumeric characters. Really, where does it find all these things that it knows?

@Kusalananda Hah didn't even notice the extra n

it's just a really advanced google search

so probably from bad stack exchange questions

this is actually really scary to think of how much code will be written by chatgpt and used by people who don't know if it's flawed or not

including myself

It's like Google search, but more like a summary without references

@jesse_b Which is why we don't allow AI-generated answers on the site.

@Kusalananda nothing to stop people from doing it. I will definitely be using it to help me work in the future

it's a good tool for a starting off place but it will be used for way more than that

@jesse_b Yeah, one can use it for inspiration, possibly, but I would trust it only slightly more than 1000 monkeys on typewriters.

it's not very much different than this site though in a lot of aspects

@jesse_b 1000 monkeys?

someone with very little clue asks a question how to perform a task, they get an answer with some caveats they don't understand, ignore them, and send it straight into production

and by they I mean me

@jesse_b Yeah, and then they ignore the most up-voted answer from the local gurus because Cookie9 (unregistered) "answered first".

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/…

I've pasted that article in here a bunch of times before but this reminds me of their proposed solution

it's been a while since I read it but IIRC they advocated essentially for something like chatgpt where instead of writing code directly you tell some model what needs to be accomplished and let it write the code which should theoretically reduce bugs

people certainly create bugs but all that will do is take away their ability to recognize them

hmm interesting

I asked it to write a program in Go that calculates the approximate flash point of a water/ethanol mix

I then asked it to prompt for the user to input the water and ethanol percentages

it prompts for only the ethanol percentage and then assumes the water percentage by subtracting ethanol from 100. Which is smarter than how I was thinking of doing it lol