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Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10% (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Slow June, people voting with their feet amid this AI craze, or something else?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ChatGPT has mostly given me very poor or patently wrong answers. Only once did it really surprise me by showing me how I configured BGP routing wrong for a network. I was tearing my hair out and googling endlessly for hours. ChatGPT solved it in 30 seconds or less. I am sure this is the exception rather than the rule though.

[โ€“] zeppo 7 points 1 year ago

It all depends on the training data. If you pick a topic that it happens to have been well trained on, it will give you accurate, great answers. If not, it just makes things up. It's been somewhat amusing, or perhaps confounding, seeing people use it thinking it's an oracle of knowledge and wisdom that knows everything. Maybe someday.