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Well, GPT-4 can translate text in different languages. GPT is great for working with text.
Unless the content might be sensitive or even offensive to some people, then GPT may refuse to cooperate.
I once saw people talking about a song made during the war in Ukraine, and wanted to know what the lyrics are about. It refused to translate.
I tried to convince it I'm seeking the information for educational purposes, would not spread it, and am aware fighters on both sides are human beings, yet it refused.
A less sophisticated tool gave me a fairly understandable translation (as far as I can tell, unable to understand the original), but then I could not ask how certain things might be meant.
I like to be able to follow up with questions for the given context with ChatGPT, but experiences like these have deterred my quite a bit from using and recommending it. I'd like to decide when I want to use a tool, and do not want the tool to overrule my decision.
I heard similar experiences from people trying to use it to write fantasy or sci-fi.
Then you won't be able to use someone else's model on hardware you don't pay for.
It is the same when you pay for it.
It's not the same when you run your own model on your own hardware. There are FOSS models that run on consumer hardware. Go for it.
You specifically refered to the payment as one of 3 causes of this (someone else's model and hardware, no payment). That is wrong, paying them does not change that. Notice how your reply makes it seem like I talk about the other 2 causes, I don't.
Not to mention - taking about your own model is totally absurd. That is like suggesting to someone who dislikes touchscreens in cars to build their own car.
That's all ChatGPT is good for.
Apparently it can regurgitate good break-up letters
It is pretty good at writing letters. Just don't ask it for any information.
It provides really good information on a ton of topics. What makes you think it does not?
Ask it about how a rotary kiln works, what types of heat transfer occurs, what it is used for etc. It is pretty amazing
Its information is often wrong, and not only that, it provide legitimate looking fake links also if you ask for source. Even if you ask it for school level maths, it does it wrongly.
For simple things it might ne providing good enough info, but I still wouldn't trust it at all.
Choose any topic where you are sufficiently proficient and ask it questions about it.
Asking it to directly do math is simply the wrong approach. Like using a car to paint lines on a road. It kind of can do it, but not really. You can ask it for instructions how to do the calculation or for code that does it. Or get the GPT Wolframalpha plugin and let that do it directly.
I asked ChatGPT to give me a list of certain rhyming words that began with the letter L. None of the words began with L.
I am sufficiently proficient in the alphabet.
That made me chuckle. I've made it do a lot of poems and songs which rhyme though.
Seems like the results are hit and miss. I don't know why. I never thought much about how I please something, but maybe it does matter and I just happen to do it right?
I have. And it has always gave me wrong information. Always. Not even once it gave me right info. I asked for source, it gave me fake links.
Interesting. Can you copy that conversation? I would like to try the same input so we can compare. I also want to understand what topic it is etc.