Comment by gptgpp
2 years ago
Finally, a take on chatgpt and similar LLMs I agree with!
I've criticized it whenever it gets brought up as an alternative for academic research, coding, math, other more sophisticated knowledge based stuff. In my experience at least, it falls apart at reliably dealing with these and I haven't gone back.
But man, is it ever revolutionary at actually dealing with language and text.
As an example, I have a bunch of boring drama going on right now with my family, endless fucking emails while I'm trying to work.
I just paste them into chat gpt and get it to summarize them, and then I get it to write a response. The onerous safeguards make it so I don't have to worry about it being a dick.
Family has texted me about how kind and diplomatic I'm being and I honestly don't even really know what they're squabbling about, it's so nice!
Haha that's amazing. This is exactly what I mean, for the right use cases it's absolutely amazing.
Good luck with the drama! Make sure to read a summary for the next family meeting haha.
The great part is I can just get it to summarize all the summaries, love how it's flexible like that.
Yeah I will be sure to read it before meeting them, would be awkward if they found out I was using it during one of the disputes, which was whether or not to keep resuscitating Grandma.
ChatGPTs stupid ethical filters made it so I actually had to type my response to that one all by myself.