[ian0]

Its not, really. The major difference between this and web3/crypto is utility. Its actually useful. In our office we have people from three different teams using it near daily. Out of choice. As do many kids in our network for homework. For a recently released product effectively in beta thats insane.

Theres a bunch of snake oil salesmen jumping on the bandwagon which is very unfortunate. But lots of people sell fake pharmaceuticals online doesn't mean paracetamol wont help with your headache.

[busyant]

> Its actually useful. In our office we have people from three different teams using it near daily. Out of choice. As do many kids in our network for homework. For a recently released product effectively in beta thats insane.

Yep.

I asked it to make a worksheet for students to practice converting numbers written in scientific notation back to "standard" format.

So, it gave me a bunch of output like:

6.2x10^-6: ___________________

What annoyed me about this is that it used the letter "x" instead of the proper multiplication symbol "×" and it used the hyphen (-) instead of the appropriate "minus" sign (−).

So, I told it to use proper typographic symbols, and it did!

It converted "6.2x10^-6" to "6.2×10^−6"

It even told me the Unicode numbers it was using for × and −.

Then I asked it to re-generate the worksheet using LaTeX and the siunitx package.

It nailed it.

It's like someone just handed me a turbo-charged assistant. Yeah, I have to make sure my assistant hasn't gone insane, but it has already spared me a ton of grunt work.