Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by roflyear on Sunday March 26, 2023 @02:57PM (#35318122)

I'm just not talking about trying to fish an accurate answer. I think you can do that. I'm talking about getting an answer about something that requires an interaction that gets the model to "understand" the problem (like you would a person) - which GPT can't do.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by wnkrshm on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:20AM (#35324211)

Something akin to: Here is a niche mathematical problem that does not fit any existing solutions/publications, we need a working but not necessarily optimal solution to do this. ?

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by roflyear on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:24AM (#35326398)

Sure, or even an existing algo or method that is applied to something very niche that hasn't been done much (at least in the data GPT is trained on, I guess).

In my experience these things need a little nuance communicated as a part of the problem, but GPT can't get there. It just starts looping over incorrect solutions (rather than modifying them slightly to get it right like a person would).

These aren't crazy advanced things, either. I'm not a genius. I solved the problems when GPT couldn't. I was just trying out GPT4.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by throwaway4aday on Monday March 27, 2023 @07:29AM (#35325307)

Consider how long our comment thread is and I still don't have a clear idea of what you're talking about or how to help you.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by roflyear on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:22AM (#35326369)

I'm not looking for help, so I don't think we're really trying to have the same conversation.

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