Comment by sandgiant
4 years ago
I'd love to get on the hype train here, but I really need for someone to explain to me how ChatGPT is more than just a toy. What is this going to be useful for exactly?
Another kind of knowledge exploration perhaps? If they find a way for it to not produce factually incorrect output. Isn't that a big if?
You can already use it to write slides for your next meeting. Or marketing content about your product. Just describe it a little bit, and you get something you can use as it is.
It’s also really good for questions like „What’s the difference between Technology A and B“
Or „Write a Christmas card to my grandmother.“, tell it what you remember about your relationship with your grandmother and you will get a nicer card text, than most people would ever come up with.
It won't take many improvements for this to operate as a tech support interface at scale.
I had the same initial feeling about OpenAI Codex, but now I'm using it for real work. It feels like using a powerful search engine that always finds a stackoverflow answer to exactly your question.