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Do you regular use an AI chat service?

VitoBotta

VitoBotta

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If yes, which one? I used ChatGPT for quite a while, then switched to Claude since Opus seemed to perform better with coding and technical tasks, then I noticed Claude started to suck and switched back to ChatGPT when GPT-4o was released.

What do you use and why?
 
I did. Mostly to compose email at work and simple questions about many stuff like drugs, food, place etc. It’s much better than Google (translate) and Wikipedia. Also my kids use it for school & college. I subscribed ChatGPT.
 
Isamilis said:
I did. Mostly to compose email at work and simple questions about many stuff like drugs, food, place etc. It’s much better than Google (translate) and Wikipedia. Also my kids use it for school & college. I subscribed ChatGPT.
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Until recently I was using it almost exclusively to save time with technical stuff, but now I have configured the middle key of my Logitech mouse to open ChatGPT in a overlay popup and I am using it for a lot more stuff.

Pakaku said:
I've done just fine without chatbots up to this point, and I see no reason to delve into that fad.
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To be honest I have been wondering if using such tools can kinda make people more dumb lol, since you get answers to many questions so easily and these tools can automate many things. However the gains in productivity for many things are just hard to ignore and ChatGPT costs just 22 bucks per month.
 
I saw a study the other day, and if I remember the figures correctly around 2% of people use chatbots regularly, 16% have tried them once or twice, and 30% have never heard of them.

Personally I'm in that 16%: I've tried them a couple of times, got absolute nonsense in the response, and then left them alone.
 
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Nermal said:
I saw a study the other day, and if I remember the figures correctly around 2% of people use chatbots regularly, 16% have tried them once or twice, and 30% have never heard of them.
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Wow, that's surprising. I hear and read about ChatGPT etc all the time so I was kinda expectiing more people to use it or similar services.
 
VitoBotta said:
Until recently I was using it almost exclusively to save time with technical stuff, but now I have configured the middle key of my Logitech mouse to open ChatGPT in a overlay popup and I am using it for a lot more stuff.



To be honest I have been wondering if using such tools can kinda make people more dumb lol, since you get answers to many questions so easily and these tools can automate many things. However the gains in productivity for many things are just hard to ignore and ChatGPT costs just 22 bucks per month.
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I remember I have to prepare internal memo document explaining complex situation and proposal for approval. It only needs one iteration to produce the final one with ChatGPT save hours / 1 day for us to prepare.
 
I use Perplexity regularly, it saves a LOT of time Googling for answers.

Perplexity and Copilot are the only chatbots I know of that use Internet searches to keep their answers up-to-date; all the other ones rely entirely on old training data, so their answers are sometimes out of date. And Copilot is, uh... not great. 🤪
 
coffeemilktea said:
I use Perplexity regularly, it saves a LOT of time Googling for answers.

Perplexity and Copilot are the only chatbots I know of that use Internet searches to keep their answers up-to-date; all the other ones rely entirely on old training data, so their answers are sometimes out of date. And Copilot is, uh... not great. 🤪
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I forgot completely that I also use Github Copilot together with ChatGPT. I use Copilot mostly to speed up repeatitive code with auto completion and ChatGPT for discussions when I am trying to figure out something
 
I bounce around trying several occasionally for programming questions. Often the answers are complete nonsense but when they aren't sometimes it often saves me having to go digging for an answer.
 
The one time I tried chatGPT it gave me a truly ludicrous response, that I was only able to recognize because I was a subject matter expert in that particular area. Based on that experience, I would be extremely reluctant to use it ever again because you can’t trust the validity of a response. Obviously, these systems have been trained with mountains of data, including huge volumes of absolute junk. It is clearly a classic problem of garbage in, garbage out.
 
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I test them all periodically but have yet to be impressed by the outputs I get. LLM chatbots, as offered by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc, are truly garbage technology built on content theft.
 
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The one time I tried chatGPT it gave me a truly ludicrous response, that I was only able to recognize because I was a subject matter expert in that particular area. Based on that experience, I would be extremely reluctant to use it ever again because you can’t trust the validity of a response.
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Yeah, I know enough to be highly suspect when it's feeding me garbage. I worry about the newbies honestly trying to learn via its output.
 
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I use ChatGPT for problem solving sometimes. Where I used to google questions I normally start with asking ChatGPT. It has done a pretty good job at some complex questions I have had for data handling and variable data merging with Adobe Indesign. I will say my relationship is purely professional, I do not talk about anything personal with ChatGPT.
 
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