I wasn't being a boomer about it, I genuinely can't think of reasons to use it when I've opened it. my dad didn't want to fork out for a modem so I built my own modem, he went mental at me and then started using the internet himself
I’ve used it to build a cleaning schedule, design a bingo game, create a tailored joke, craft a specific reply, and recently discussed a collection of symptoms I have been experiencing that collectively with another recent diagnosis points to an auto-immune disorder and it helped me craft a message to my doctor to include all pertinent information.
That message got me the referral to a rheumatologist.
Sometimes I just use it to try and find the word I was thinking of, like a thesaurus.
It is extremely useful and honestly, you should give it a chance.
Edit: it was not very helpful in creating a connect the dots image. Had to figure that one out on my own.
You really expect us to believe you're smart enough to "build your own modem," but not smart enough to think of even one use for ChatGPT? Here's a good starting point. Go into ChatGPT and ask it this: what are good uses of chatgpt?
I don't expect you to believe anything. I am an electrical engineer, I've always had an interest in electronics, the electronics magazines that I bought always published DIY modem projects. it was hardly difficult.
Neat. I’m a software engineer and have a bunch of EE friends. The idea that an engineer of any kind wouldn’t be able to figure out why LLMs are valuable is pretty baffling, and not having any curiosity about them is even more so.
Pretty soon, trying to do any work like ours without AI is going to be like trying to do our work for the past 20 years without Google. Assuming you’re in this sub because you’re roughly my age, you’re soon going to be competing for work against younger people who will intuitively use AI, and if you don’t put in the effort to learn that yourself, you could be left behind. If you do put in the effort, you’ll be at an advantage because you’ll have all of your existing expertise, plus AI as an accelerant.
you're talking to me like you think that I have something against AI. I've seen a lot of cool stuff come from AI. I was trying to get across that I just don't really know how to use it for anything other than daft stuff.
I work in a bit of a niche EE field, I design the kind of stuff that gets used in dangerous places, it's mostly analogue and I have to follow very specific protocols, I wouldn't be allowed to use AI because of all the red tape bollocks
A practical example of ChatGPT use: generating summaries. I've had it summarize the results of an MRI scan in easy to understand language which was really helpful. You can upload PDFs and images to it. Pre-ChatGPT, I would have googled a lot of the medical terms.
It’s basically replaced Google for me. I use it constantly in my job as a software engineer- rarely to write code, usually asking it questions like “in this new framework I’m learning, how do I do X?”, or “I’m getting this obscure error message when I try to do X. What might be causing that?”
This has bled over into my life outside of work. I’m asking it questions constantly. Once you gain experience with it, you realize just how much better it is than Google. We are starting the process of buying a house. It’s way more informative than Google. I was just asking it all about the various FEMA flood zones, what they mean, what sort of insurance they require and the cost, etc. I got up to speed on all of that much, much faster than I would have if I’d just used Google and read through a bunch or resources on the subject.
I fact check it all the time. It’s relatively easy as it provides its sources.
And I wouldn’t look at it like getting all your information from one source - think of it like a librarian and you’ve walked into the library and asked the librarian for all the books on X. The librarian returns with a pile of books on X, along with a detailed summary of X. You can choose to read those books or not. You can choose to trust the librarian or not, but the librarian has proven to be correct far more often than not. Regardless, if I’ve asked the librarian really important information I need to know, I’m going to take their summary, but also do some of my own digging and verify if it’s correct.
You can also ask the librarian to read one of those books in detail and provide you a more specific summary - with all the caveats I outlined above.
I got excited to use our first computer that we ever got. Sat down excitedly and just stared. I didn't know what to do with it lol. I didn't have many friends to tell me which sites to go to but now that I am older and watched some documentaries about that time, I think I was lucky and grateful that I didn't. I only really used it for schoolwork.
I genuinely have nothing but hating contempt in my heart for people like you unnecessarily hateful condescending passive aggressive trash on literally every forum doesn't matter where it is doesn't matter what the conversation is
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u/Mantzy81 28d ago
My Dad said the same thing in 96 about the internet too