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by keiferski 1040 days ago
Is ChatGPT 4 significantly better than 3.5? Because I am seeing it make basic, common sense errors that a person would never make. Things like, “Only give me results that fit this certain criteria.” Or “remove any results that are about X.” It repeatedly does the same mistakes over and over again, even after I point them out. This is in addition to just getting basic facts wrong.

And that’s not even mentioning the constant milquetoast disclaimer it has to give at the end of each answer - again, which it refuses to stop saying, even when I explicitly tell it to stop.

At this point I wouldn’t trust it to make me a cup of coffee, so I am a bit baffled by these threads. I have primarily found it to be useful when you’re using it as “text calculator” to reformat text, add commas to CSVs, etc. and even then it takes a lot of trial and error.

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> Is ChatGPT 4 significantly better than 3.5?

Yes. You should try it. It is genuinely useful.

Thanks, I’ll give it a try.