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Re:I’m an doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT t... by gerdesj on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:29PM (#35461959)
Jolly hockey sticks but we have to be rather careful with these things. I've had it devise multiple computer programs from OpenSCAD to BASH and Python because I can get a real feel for what it is really doing, given that I am an IT bod.

I'm also a Civil Engineering grad and it really cocked up when I asked a question about normal beam strength and I suspect it will get the pressure at depth thing wrong too. Both of these are related to depth only - one dimensional. That's why we have I beams - the flanges are to resist twisting and buckling but the strength is in the depth.

ChatGPT is a tool. It is basically a really good calculator. I do find myself saying please in my requests.

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Re:I’m an doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT t... by kelnos on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:36AM (#35466550)
A really bad calculator, IMO. A calculator gives you always-correct answers to specific, well-formed questions in a relatively small domain (math).

ChatGPT gives you approximate and sometimes-wrong answers to arbitrary questions in nearly any domain.

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