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by homieg33 1146 days ago
It’s nice to be able to ask ChatGPT a half baked, poorly researched, poorly worded question with bad grammar yet get a totally good faith response back that’s a springboard for follow up questions. Whereas if you did the same thing on any stack exchange site you get downvotes and comments like “please read the guidelines and edit your question.”
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pavlov 1146 days ago
Kindness and patience have always been in short supply on the public internet, but AI can simulate them in infinite amounts.

That’s a positive thing about this generative AI revolution that I haven’t really thought about in those terms until now.

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tomnipotent 1146 days ago
> Kindness and patience have always been in short supply

Agreed. Look at all the responses in this post attacking the author for how he learns, it's embarrassing to read. Now imagine that person is actually a teacher or TA, or worse a co-worker. I'd much rather deal with an imperfect ChatGPT session than that kind of flippancy.

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p-e-w 1146 days ago
That is actually the killer feature of interactive AIs.

People go on and on and on about "accuracy", completely ignoring that accuracy is irrelevant to 99.9% of things that humans do in their everyday lives.

Simulating (positive) human interaction is far more impactful than getting facts correct.

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Capricorn2481 1146 days ago
> Simulating (positive) human interaction is far more impactful than getting facts correct.

In my experience, people with the attitude that AI will give them a more fulfilling relationship than humans will aren't exactly friendly to begin with.

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kerkeslager 1146 days ago
What does it mean to have a positive interaction with someone who consistently tells you misinformation with a high degree of confidence?
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p-e-w 1146 days ago
If you don't already know the answer to that question, I doubt it would be possible to explain it to you. Looking for precise definitions of essential human qualities is a fool's errand.
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seb1204 1146 days ago
Like Trump?
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thsbrown 1146 days ago
Completely agree. ChatGPT can be an incredible tool for getting a lay of the land on a subject or topic you don't know much about.

On that note, search in that regard always reminded me of those times where you ask a teacher how to spell a word and they say to look it up in the dictionary.

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