ChatGPT - Interesting Things You’ve Used It For

[Gadgetmac]

Well I have both ChatGPT and Bard and aside from a couple of basic light hearted questions I fired at it and then asked it to reply again in poetic form and then in poetic form but with each verse starting with the letter Y, I’m really at a lose for how to use it for more sophisticated outcomes that I can’t do myself using google.

So, anyone found a great use for it?

The best I’ve heard so far is to create an Email script for making somebody redundant but in a compassionate way. I was hoping for more TBH.

[Gadgetmac]

NuckyThompson said:

Tried signing up for it but keeps saying signup unavailable? I thought those issues were a few weeks ago?

Go here: https://chat.openai.com/chat

Or download the Nova app

[Gadgetmac]

TTmonkey said:

djneils98 said:

I am a teacher (A level computer science) and I have so far used it to:
come up with ideas and write tons of resources and notes for lessons.
turn transcripts of YouTube videos into sets of multiple choice questions
turn those questions in JSON
write a complete quiz app to use that JSON data with that saves the questions to an SQL database
got it to write a large section of a piece of A level coursework
tried an actual A level paper on it (it would easily get an A*)
written a prompt so that it can mark and give excellent feedback on essay style exam questions
I have the plus version and I will say that GPT4 is a substantially better coder than 3.5
I'm besotted with it!

So the teachers are ‘cheating’.

I guess when the students use it to complete the work you set them using it, there can be no real complaints.

Not sure that line of reasoning is correct. The teachers aren't the ones being tested so it's not really 'cheating'.

[Gadgetmac]

I've integrated it into excel now using a macro (VBA).

You type your question or whatever into a cell, click on the macro icon and it processes the question and returns the answer in a new worksheet (tab) named Results.

If you ask it for (say) the names of all of the countries in the EU it will return each countries name in a separate cell listed downwards in column A.

Looking forward to its full integration into Excel/Office from Microsoft themselves where it'll be far more sophisticated and presumably fully interact with the data in your spreadsheet.

"Make a bar graph from the data below"

"Now add data labels"

"Now colour the bars red"

That kinda thing.

[Gadgetmac]

HorneyMX5 said:

You guys should have a look at AutoGPT. In a nut shell you set it a task and it goes off and does it. Mind blowing stuff.

Can you give an example or two please?

[Gadgetmac]

MrCheese said:

I've experimented with the free chatGPT for a few things, some things I asked it that were medical related were horrifically wrong and presented as fact.

I'm thinking of playing with AutoGPT, can anyone tell me whether I need a paid chatGPT subscription as well as the fee for autoGPT or does the autoGPT cost include the cost of gpt4?

I'm struggling to get autoGPT to work...

[Gadgetmac]

smn159 said:

turbobloke said:

Recent use shows it to be firmly right-on p.c. in its responses to questions even marginally touching on controverial areas, one has to suspect such AI cancel culture reflects on its originators given the widely available nature of point and counterpoint on disputed issues. This was around covid and political responses to it, I hadn't seen this particular query as quite so sensitive.

ChatGPT: "It's important to note that this notion is often rooted in conspiracy theories and is not supported by credible evidence"
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So I gave it some solid evidence: information, data, primary sources, dates, in1 a self-contained area of the original enquiry.

Chat GPT: "While it may raise questions... it does not constitute conclusive evidence"

It does/did, but clearly unacceptably so. Hopefully without diverting the thread into discussions of areas of controversy per se, has anyone else had similar experiences?

Saw you had posted, clicked expecting a complaint about woke bias. Was not disappointed

Although it's off-topic for this thread I'd just like to add that bias is often a relative concept, and an assertion that one person might consider neutral might be viewed as biased by someone else. This is one reason why building an “unbiased” chatbot is an impossible goal.

If you ask chatGPT itself if it has any inbuilt bias it gave me the answer...

ChatGPT, like many machine learning models, can potentially exhibit biases present in the data it was trained on. Efforts have been made to reduce biases during training, and OpenAI has implemented guidelines to avoid favoring any political group or promoting harmful content. However, bias es can still exist, and the model may generate responses that reflect societal biases.

OpenAI is actively working on improving the fairness and reducing biases in its models, but it's essential to be aware that no model is entirely free from biases. Users should use ChatGPT critically and responsibly and report any harmful or biased content they come across.

[Gadgetmac]

The thing is if you ask chatGTP a question where you have a preconceived idea of what the answer should be on a subject in which your own view is in the minority then you're likely to get an answer you don't like. Your own view being in a minority for the very reason chatGPT kinda highlights... the majority of the information out there doesn't agree with you.

I guess you should refrain from asking those type of questions in the first place if you don't want your hackles raised.

Edited by Gadgetmac on Monday 11th September 10:42

[Gadgetmac]

TBF you’d expect it to get that answer correct 100 times out of 100 as it only has recognise which letters of the alphabet are Vowels and which are Consonants which are a simple google away.

I’m quite surprised it got that wrong but can get excel macros etc right first time.