Comment by crazygringo

2 years ago

Travel planning and online shopping?

How does it help with online shopping when it's trained on a corpus from one or two years ago?

And similarly the experiences with travel recommendations have turned out to be infamously wrong.

ChatGPT does great with finding patterns and condensing information, which code snippets are a perfect example of.

But using it for anything up-to-date factual like shopping or travel is disastrous.

ChatGPT will out and out make up products that don't exist, pricing that isn't based on anything, and reviews and evaluations that never happened. Similarly, it will rely on programming behaviors and even libraries and functions that are hallucinated.

"What's the best market to buy X" often doesn't change every year, but can be very hard to learn due to SEO and ads that it is relatively unaffected by.

in many categories, things don't change so quickly for example in construction. Even for power tools, 2 yrs is fine for getting an overview.