Re:Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder
by spaniard89277 on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:29AM
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This is my experience too. I've tried to do simple task like building small JS scripts and while it's doable, is like having a kid who needs oversight and can't clearly connect ideas.
And coding is supposedly an area where it shines.
GPT is waaay better than us humans at finding and summarizing information. Way way faster. But I've tried to write a blog post about some technical stuff and I finally gave up after many tries.
It's good. It's frightening already. But it's still not "there". It's like having a extremely fast but bit dumb virtual assistant.
Way better than anything we had before.
> To add to this - GPT is good at synthesizing existing information, but it's bad at combining it in truly novel ways.
Is that true, though? These AIs seem pretty capable to extract abstractions, like an author's style, and apply it to novel concepts.
OP's startup idea is in a well-understood domain. There are lots of existing competitors offering basically that exact service. There are clear, obvious paths to building it. GPT can draw from blog posts and tutorials.
On the other hand, it does poorly with significantly novel ideas. I tried it with one I've been working on that combines 3D printing and crafting in new ways. Its answers just regurgitated blog posts about existing combinations. It even ignored the grammar of my questions, which switched the usual direct object with the object of the preposition. Which makes sense, because it isn't doing critical thinking - it's pattern matching.