@SaintSpring is coming from a genuinely curious place and his intent was to be helpful. He is always helpful on the forum so lets not get carried away guys.
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My “heal inner child” question for GPT4 was using Bing Chat, which does seem to be able to browse the internet in real time for answers, as it was able to identify the healing category on the shop website, mine the pages for details, and then compare two titles (LBFH and DR), so the question I posed it was a followup to that interaction.
I would say as a tool to play around with, keyword being PLAY, as an aid to our own intuitive self-discovery process, the AI could be useful.
However I completely understand as well where Saint is coming from, with all the recent issues, that it’s a dangerous precedent to set for newer/less stable members.
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Ew, that thing sucks LOL
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As a general piece of advice for anyone who doesn’t work extensively with AI… do your own “$hit tests” on it. Push it… poke holes in its responses… ask it about things you understand very thoroughly.
Concepts… specific knowledge… Learn to see for yourself when it can be trusted and when it absolutely cannot.
I’ve never used the new Bing chat, so I have no frame of reference for that… I’m referring specifically to GPT-3.5 and 4, through both ChatGPT and the Playground.
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I know, and I’m not trying to attack him or this thread.
Just saying that if the goal is to self improve, then using the aid of an artificial “intelligence” (with all its limits and making things up) isn’t the most ideal way to go about things.
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I heard people say that it’s better than ChatGPT and I used it was like “huh”.
I used it for 5 minutes and was like “nah, I’m out”. It’s also not as conversational as ChatGPT making it come across as kind of rude tbh. It has no manners
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Yes, this isn’t an attack on @SaintSpring. Just a discussion, since the topic was brought up. My concern here is for beginners and to protect the community from those with delusions from using even more weird logic to fuel their conspiracies.
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Excellent work. Thank you.
Used ChatGPT a lot when studying for my IT networking exam. Had to correct half of the responses it gave back to me because of how it randomly BSed its way through answers with explanations that are plausible to those who don’t know their shit.
It’s basically a tool for leveraging Google with greater ease and like Google, the authority associated with its initial responses should always be taken with a grain of salt.
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I think that if you gave any of the great strategic minds of history the computing potential of a personal computer (even one from the 70s, 80s, or 90s), they would be able to use it to run the entire planet.
In contrast, most of us today use these tools to view videos or to write e-mails and online posts.
The main difference is that these people learned to use their own minds first.
The discipline and development that you bring to your own mind is the primary determinant of how you will use these tools and what they will become.
Will you use the tool?
Or will the tool use you?
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Spot on 
I already mostly given up on ChatGPT after it failed to create a math problem for 4th grade students.
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I haven’t used ChatGPT yet; but all of these so-called flaws that people are citing are making me feel more and more impressed with its potential.
The potential is astounding (and yes also a bit scary), but like any other tool it depends on how it’s used.
If you expect it to just do the work for you, you will likely be disappointed in the results due to errors or just outright weirdness. Used within its (current) abilities though, it’s pretty nifty.
And 3.5 vs 4 is night and day difference. I pay for ChatGPT Plus, but GPT-4 is so much more capable than 3.5, I’m mostly back to throttled access with only 25 queries per 3 hours… lol.
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To be fair that description based on the prompt that SaintSpring gave to GPT4 is pretty good.
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