Re:Talking About Large Language Models
by Al-Khwarizmi on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:31PM
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Do my core work? No, it's not going to, at the moment.
But it's already saving me nontrivial amounts of time on tasks like "write a polite followup email reminding person X, who didn't reply to the email I sent last week, that the deadline for doing Y expires at date Z".
I typically spend at least 3-4 minutes finding the words for such a trivial email and thinking how to write it best, e.g. trying to make the other person react without coming across as annoying, etc. (Being a non-native English speaker who communicates mostly in English at work may be a factor). ChatGPT is really good with words. Using it, it takes a few seconds and I can use the output with only trivial edits.
But it's already saving me nontrivial amounts of time on tasks like "write a polite followup email reminding person X, who didn't reply to the email I sent last week, that the deadline for doing Y expires at date Z".
I typically spend at least 3-4 minutes finding the words for such a trivial email and thinking how to write it best, e.g. trying to make the other person react without coming across as annoying, etc. (Being a non-native English speaker who communicates mostly in English at work may be a factor). ChatGPT is really good with words. Using it, it takes a few seconds and I can use the output with only trivial edits.