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by sireat 1215 days ago
ChatGPT has an infinite number of uses as long as those involve text transformation in some form.

My favorite has been to feed it some slab of text and let it generate synopsis and then bullet points and then you can expand on those bullet points.

You feed it some prompts and let it expand on a topic.

My main use has been to generate multiple choice quizzes on a variety of topics for my students.

ChatGPT does a very good job 90% of a time and if some quiz is off, you just let ChatGPT make some more.

If need be you can generate code in oh about 20-30 programming languages. Vast majority of it will be ideomatic too. Sure Copilot (which is GPT-2 or GPT-3 now?) could do some of the tasks as well but the generality of ChatGPT is astounding.

Now, it is not going to write a big application for you but ChatGPT could generate large parts of the code.

So far the only weakness (besides the rare hallucination) I've found ChatGPT tends to make up word endings in less popular human languages when translating from English. That is probably due to how tokenization is done.

Has anyone been able to have ChatGPT generate gramatically "incorrect" English? I am talking about regular prompts (not rap or dialects).