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GeneralRe: Have you played with OpenAI's ChatGPT? Pin
Slacker0072-Jan-23 11:38
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Gerry Schmitz2-Jan-23 17:29
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jmaida2-Jan-23 17:38
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RainHat2-Jan-23 23:19
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DerekT-P2-Jan-23 23:22
professionalDerekT-P2-Jan-23 23:22 
Yes, a little. In some cases the answers seem very good, in others they can be incomplete, contradictory, or just wrong. When errors are pointed out, ChatGPT sometimes improves the answer (and sometimes apologises), but it seems to me it generally bases its responses on the first thing it looks up, rather than comparing a number of answers and finding a consensus.
When I asked "whats the difference between walschaerts and stevenson valve gear?" (types of valve gear used on steam locomotives) it gave a clear answer, describing not just the differences but the advantages/disadvantages and why you might adopt one over the other. It felt like talking to a knowledgeable engineer with good communication skills. But when I asked "how do vacuum brakes work on a railway train" the initial answer was poorly described and included some confused and misleading descriptions. When I asked it to clarify an aspect it had pretty much fudged, it gave me an equally poorly worded response that said pretty much the opposite of what it had just said. I challenged it on its contradiction and it apologised, admitted it was wrong and gave a third poorly-worded spiel that didn't clarify anything and still used wrong concepts and omitted key aspects.

As with (for example) newspapers, we take information and tend to assume it's true. But when it relates to a field we're knowledgeable about we quickly spot the flaws and inconsistencies and have to assume that the source is just as uninformed about other subject matters, and that we're being fed complete nonsense a LOT of the time.
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GeneralRe: Have you played with OpenAI's ChatGPT? Pin
Nelek2-Jan-23 23:31
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter2-Jan-23 23:45
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GeneralWell, that's the first murder of the year. Pin
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