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0 pointslupire2y ago0 comments

How useful is it if you have to know what you expect the answer to be? How do you know you are right in your calls of when to trust it? This smells like a confirmation bias machine.

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simonw2y ago

It turns out to be absurdly useful, to a very un-intuitive degree.

One trick I use is to assume it has a "Wikipedia-level" knowledge of pretty much any topic. Often that's what I need! I want to ask some quick questions of someone eloquent who's read the Wikipedia article about something, to save me from having to read the whole thing myself.

If I need more expertise than you can get from reading Wikipedia I know that ChatGPT alone is very unlikely to cut it.

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0 pointslupire2y ago0 comments

How useful is it if you have to know what you expect the answer to be? How do you know you are right in your calls of when to trust it? This smells like a confirmation bias machine.

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simonw2y ago

It turns out to be absurdly useful, to a very un-intuitive degree.

If I need more expertise than you can get from reading Wikipedia I know that ChatGPT alone is very unlikely to cut it.

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