We all know that trying to get non-pozzed responses to anything involving hot button political/social topics from Big Tech trained AI models is a fool's errand, but I'm wondering if anyone has found them to be of any use when it comes to programming. Despite what a number of my professors say, some of whom are definitely not diversity hires, I haven't found them to be of any use. Maybe it's because I'm only asking hard or niche questions when I can't find the answer elsewhere, but I haven't gotten any help from the bots in my programming tasks. The last time I tried it invented modules to a package out of thin air. Had those modules actually existed I wouldn't have needed to ask the question to begin with. From what I've seen the most it can do is help pajeets cheat in their programming 101 classes. Has anyone here had a different experience?
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No it's shit.
If you say that, then you are speaking from a position of ignorance, inexperience, or both.
Show us. I think people will be happy if you do.
I explained in more detail about one recent usage l in this post: (not sure if there's a better way to link)
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17sPFoXxFo/x/c/4Z8kybNWU3r
Here are a series of chatGPT-4 queries I did today. I'm not an Excel wizard, so this was helpful. The answers worked perfectly with no edits. I could have figured this out, but it probably would have taken me 15-20 minutes (the third query with summary by month was tricky). Not exactly programming, but programming adjacent!
"I have an excel spreadsheet with a sheet named "Details". There are many rows. Row 1 is a header. Column C is a "Category" column. In another worksheet I want to list all the unique Categories from sheet Details AND how many rows have that category."
follow up
" In sheet Details, Column G is called "Widgets". This maybe a value or it may be blank. I want to summarize how many of each category has a value in the widgets col"
another follow up
"Another. Column B is a date/time col. summarize the number of rows for each month."
Fight me
Lol.
But seriously I have experimented with it and I'm not impressed, people grossly overexaggerate the capabilities of machine learning algorithms because they seem to really want their skynet larp and I see people who should know better doing this as well since it's the 'current thing' to be scared of.
There was an experiment that was done on the godot forums and it was an absolute disaster. Some bright spark had the idea of implementing a form of ChatGPT I think it was in the form of a bot on the forum. Not only did it confuse the fuck out of genuine newbies who were trying to ask questions it also frequently gave 'answers' to very specific questions and quite often it was simply shamelessly copy-pasting responses from the internet.
I'm being a stubborn fuck about AI for a reason, it's frankly exposing quite a few people for being lazy arseholes and this is going to happen more as time goes on and people keep trying to shove these machine learning algorithms in almost everything because it's the new hip current thing that totally isn't just a massive data farming op.
This is not sentient or 'clever' AI in any capacity, the people who are trying to sell it as that are lying or don't know what they're talking about, I can't wait to see how badly it's going to fuck everything up as people become reliant on it.