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by ben_w 620 days ago
They're already operating on an architecture that can do that for about a nanojoule.

You can also just ask them to write code for you, which appears to be what ChatGPT does now — it has its own python environment, I'm not sure what's in it except matplotlib and pandas, but it's at least that.
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bumby 620 days ago
I don't know if it's unique to my use case (research), but I haven't had much luck getting ChatGPT to develop useable code. At best, it seems like it's useful for identifying packages to research to solve the problem. Maybe my prompts just need improving.
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ben_w 620 days ago
My experience is that the quality varies wildly by task.

As an iOS dev, I certainly wouldn't call it "expert", but it's generally "good enough" to be a starting place whenever I get stuck, and on several occasions has surprised me with a complete bug free solution. Likewise when I ask it for web app stuff, though as that isn't my domain I wouldn't be able to tell you if the answers were "good" or "noob".

For the specific simple multiplication example given previously: https://chatgpt.com/share/6709a090-8934-8011-ae97-139b5758ad...

I do also have custom instructions set, but the critical thing here is the link to the python script, which is linked to at the end of the message, the blue text that reads: [>_]

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