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by foobarxyzzy 807 days ago
People are losing their mind about this stuff. I have been trying to use ChatGPT and generative products meaningfully in my work for some time now and (for my work at least) I'm seeing it more and more as a gimmick no better than Eliza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA.

At its best it can perform better than a regular search engine, but at its worst, it is like speaking to an idiot exhibiting advanced Dunning-Kruger - it is always 100% confident, regardless of it having hallucinated key parts of its response.