Just to clarify, you're using GPT-4? Or GPT-3.5 (the free ChatGPT one)?
My experience with GPT-4 has been completely different from what you describe. Example:
Re:First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)
by jiggawatts on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:26PM
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He's using Copilot, which is based on GPT 3.0, making it ridiculously outdated.
Generally feedback along these lines doesn't work.
People who are worried about their job security will cling to the worst AI output quality they can find like a life-preserver, and simply will not listen to advice like yours.
Nobody goes the extra mile to embrace an existential threat.
Re:First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)
by atleastoptimal on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @08:56PM
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It's sad. People's entire sense of worth is attached to their jobs. They will lie to themselves and others about the ineffectiveness of AI to feel better. Even if it trips up on some minor thing there's no reason that progress will just stop and that the SOTA version 2-3 years from now won't be leagues better. Compare what we have now to 2-3 years ago, and now the investment solely in training, ignoring the algorithmic and architectural advances, is 10x greater.
There really is no going back.
Here is my previous experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648167 with it not being able to do basic tasks.
It's all fun and games until the mistakes start having a cost.
Other examples: I resorted to using it to order lists for me or adding quotes and commas to them for SQL inserts and such. Nope - when I look at the row count, it somehow drops values at random.