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Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by fsckboy on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:09AM (#35117908)
chatgpt is only laughably wrong to educated people. it's sadly better than most people can achieve on their own. Even for educated people, the laughable part is only a personal quirk that they focus on for psychological reasons, but taken seriously a paper written by chatgpt is a good place to start and would save an educated person a lot of time in just touching it up to make it presentable, or changing the query to pare down its search for a better starting point.

It's not doing nothing, it's doing a lot.

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Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by tsimionescu on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:36AM (#35118037)
> taken seriously a paper written by chatgpt is a good place to start and would save an educated person a lot of time in just touching it up to make it presentable

If we ignore the minor requirement of the paper having any connection to reality, of course.

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Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by throwaway1851 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @06:30AM (#35118518)
Judging from a lot of the commentary on this subject, it appears to me that a surprising number of people think that reality is little more than a quaint idea.
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Re:ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Ge... by kortilla on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:51PM (#35122537)
You’re still missing the forest for the trees. It is doing a lot and it’s better at producing text that is how a human would write about topics better than many humans.

That’s not at all related to being close to general human intelligence.

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