• computerscientistII@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    16
    ·
    4 days ago

    I saved a lot of time due to ChatGPT. Need to sign up some of my pupils for a competition by uploading their data in a csv-File to some plattform? Just copy and paste their data into chsatgpt and prompt it to create the file. The boss (headmaster) wants some reasoning why I need some paid time for certain projects? Let ChatGPT do the reasoning. Need some exercises for one of my classes that doesn’t really come to grips with while-loops? let ChatGPT create those exercises (some smartasses will of course have ChatGPT then solve those exercises). The list goes on…

    • solstice@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      4 days ago

      ChatGPT is basically like a really good intern, and I use it heavily that way. I run literally every email through it and say “respond to so and so, say xyz” and then maybe a little refining, copy paste, done.

      The other day, my boss sent me an excel file with a shitload of data in it that he wanted me to analyze some such way. I just copy pasted it into gpt and asked it, and it spit out the correct response. Then my boss asked me to do something else that required a bit of excel finagling that I didn’t really know how to do, so i asked gpt, and it told me the formula, which worked immediately first try.

      So basically it helps me accomplish tasks in seconds that previously would’ve taken hours. If anything, I think markets are currently undervalued, because remarkably, fucking NONE of my colleagues or friends are using it at all yet. Once there’s widespread adoption, which will pretty much have to happen if anyone wants to stay competitive once it gains more traction, look out…

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 days ago

        The thing about tech bubbles is everyone rushes in full bore, on the hope that they can be the ones whose moonshot goes the distance. However even in the case where the technology achieves all its promise, most of those early attempts will not. Soon enough, we’ll be down to the top few, and only their datacenters will need to exist. Many of these failures will go away

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          3 days ago

          Many of these failures will go away

          In a rational, non-capitalist world, yes. In our world, all of those data centres will last until they can’t find a way to squeeze some sort of profit out of them.