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by The_Colonel 929 days ago
> but it really only "works" when you are willing to manually verify the results or just accept the fact that it may be spewing BS

Verifying a solution is often much easier than coming up with a solution. GPT-4 has produced a lot of "hallucinations" when I asked about my programming problems, but they were easy to discount. OTOH it did help me a lot with coming up (or inspiring) solutions which would take me a long time to find otherwise.

Same thing for Dall-E / Midjourney. I'm unable to produce any usable graphics on my own, with these tools I'm able to produce interesting illustrations for my needs, even if I need to discount many results. It literally provides me with a capability I didn't have before. Notice the similar pattern - it's much easier to critique a solution (generated image) than to come up with it.

I believe there are so many applications where this holds true. You can create domain-specific chatbots helping out knowledge workers in almost any discipline.