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Re:ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices... by christopherwxyz on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:18AM (#34275560)
I see ChatGPT more akin to Wikipedia and Google than a calculator. We don't consider Wikipedia or Google as much of a tool as they are a knowledge reservoir of truthiness.
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Re:ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices... by dumbfounder on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:30AM (#34275740)
Have you used it? It can generate code. It can correct grammar. It can create Haikus (poorly). It can give you ideas. It is NOT just a knowledge base.
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Re:ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices... by User23 on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:39AM (#34275887)
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Re:ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices... by gremlinsinc on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:00PM (#34281872)
Google can generate code.

- Google: How do I ... - visit stack overflow - copy/paste - code generated.

There's more steps, but how is this different? Chat GPT though will go the extra mile and actually EXPLAIN what each bit does usually. It's not always accurate but neither is stackoverflow.

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Re:ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices... by bsaul on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:18PM (#34282086)
It’s different in that the text that’s displayed in a chatgpt response never existed anywhere before you asked the question.

That’s what « generating » means, in that context.

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Re:ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices... by xwowsersx on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:26AM (#34275677)
What is a "knowledge reservoir of truthiness"?
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Re:ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices... by recursive on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:31AM (#34275753)
The school administration.
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Re:ChatGPT banned from New York City public schools’ devices... by christopherwxyz on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:37AM (#34276916)
The only knowledge this system knows is whatever it can scrape and regurgitate that appears truthful. A whole bunch of positively true, but also many cases of falsely positive.

This system can’t prove its own work (at least not yet) before publishing the results. It just publishes, which is similar to Wikipedia and Google.

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