Surprise surprise if you have no common sense and are naturally dumber AI doesn't magically make you smarter. Apparently the opposite is true. I've been saying for a while it a good tool. That's it. It's not gonna write anything for you in some meaningful way, nor is it always correct. But using it to look up information on a given topic and summarize it is an EXCELELNT way to get a starting point on any given topic (just double check its all true and don't be afraid to push back if something just doesn't sound right, it's not impossible that it occasionally get something wrong, I've had it happen before and when I pushed back it DID correct itself and redo it with the correct information).
It's also an excellent calculator. That's my main use for it. Instead of having to type out dozens of formulas into an excel spreadsheet and fill it out, or have a dozen line of math formulas in a scientific/graphing calculator, you can just give the scenario, the starting numbers, and any other relevant information and let it work it all out for you. Again, its still good to double check because it has been known to get something wrong because of how you worded it on occasion, but as a calculator, it's top tier and simplifies advanced and long winded math that no one wants to actually sit down and do. That's what I do, mainly for future projections and financial feasibility of various projects. Saves me SO much time having to search public databases for valuation and doing projections for X amount of years, etc.
If you tell it to cite sources you can easily double check to make sure what its saying is correct and correct any errors it may have mad. You can also make sure its using up to date information as a reference and not something from 20 years ago, etc. etc.
Overall, it's a tool. It's literally just the world's fanciest calculator/search engine combo that you can talk to for therapy (which apparently people do). That's it.
Mech Eng/Programmer...PERSONALLY, I would rather do the research and come up with the equations or program myself than to use AI...Espousing AI as a "tool" IS NOT SOMETHING that should be undertaken lightly WITHOUT KNOWING THE CONSEQUENCES...The HUMAN MIND is a wonderful thing to use and we, as humans, were made to ask questions and find the answers ourselves. I studied AI when I was in college for Computer Science and it when programmed it was still "GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT"!!!!!!
For the record, I'm more referring to financial projects. Think like 10 year revenue projections for a product, while accounting for multiple factors like downturns competition, etc. etc. Things that normally have a margin of error and you'd redo a normal, high and low projection anyway. I have no idea about engineering, but as far as my purposes, as long as you give it the right information it's pretty accurate within the acceptable margin of error.
Took some trial and error (which is where the tool part comes in, since you can't just blindly trust it), since at first it would give me crazy financials like 700% ROI on something simple like ROI projections for a restaurant, but after refining my "verbiage formula" I'll call it and figuring out how to upload statistical info and make it cite what its using that I don't give it myself, It's an excellent tool.
Like I said, its a tool. No different from google searching or a Texas Instruments Calculator. Just more advanced. If you know how to use it and refine it, it works excellent for its purpose. If you just blindly trust it then you get REALLY stupid responses.
For example, there was a semi viral video a while back of some black woman asking ChatGPT what would happen if all the black people left to africa as far as the economy goes and it was ridiculous crap like 7 trillion dollars in financial activity would shift from the US to Africa, and crap like that. Didn't account for any extraneous factors or broader geopolitical and economic factors either.
I stand by what I said. It's a good tool, but like any tool, if you're dumb and just blindly trust it, then you'll obviously have problems. For anything important you'd always double check it. I'll often ask it for general information (with citations) and then build up the information gathering myself from there while confirming it in a different tab, and then once I've found all the information I need, just frontload the question in a new chat (since chat degradation is a thing), and refine the data with back and forths until I'm satisfied that its within an acceptable margin of error that logically makes sense, and then go and confirm it myself
Surprise surprise if you have no common sense and are naturally dumber AI doesn't magically make you smarter. Apparently the opposite is true. I've been saying for a while it a good tool. That's it. It's not gonna write anything for you in some meaningful way, nor is it always correct. But using it to look up information on a given topic and summarize it is an EXCELELNT way to get a starting point on any given topic (just double check its all true and don't be afraid to push back if something just doesn't sound right, it's not impossible that it occasionally get something wrong, I've had it happen before and when I pushed back it DID correct itself and redo it with the correct information).
It's also an excellent calculator. That's my main use for it. Instead of having to type out dozens of formulas into an excel spreadsheet and fill it out, or have a dozen line of math formulas in a scientific/graphing calculator, you can just give the scenario, the starting numbers, and any other relevant information and let it work it all out for you. Again, its still good to double check because it has been known to get something wrong because of how you worded it on occasion, but as a calculator, it's top tier and simplifies advanced and long winded math that no one wants to actually sit down and do. That's what I do, mainly for future projections and financial feasibility of various projects. Saves me SO much time having to search public databases for valuation and doing projections for X amount of years, etc.
If you tell it to cite sources you can easily double check to make sure what its saying is correct and correct any errors it may have mad. You can also make sure its using up to date information as a reference and not something from 20 years ago, etc. etc.
Overall, it's a tool. It's literally just the world's fanciest calculator/search engine combo that you can talk to for therapy (which apparently people do). That's it.
Mech Eng/Programmer...PERSONALLY, I would rather do the research and come up with the equations or program myself than to use AI...Espousing AI as a "tool" IS NOT SOMETHING that should be undertaken lightly WITHOUT KNOWING THE CONSEQUENCES...The HUMAN MIND is a wonderful thing to use and we, as humans, were made to ask questions and find the answers ourselves. I studied AI when I was in college for Computer Science and it when programmed it was still "GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT"!!!!!!
For the record, I'm more referring to financial projects. Think like 10 year revenue projections for a product, while accounting for multiple factors like downturns competition, etc. etc. Things that normally have a margin of error and you'd redo a normal, high and low projection anyway. I have no idea about engineering, but as far as my purposes, as long as you give it the right information it's pretty accurate within the acceptable margin of error.
Took some trial and error (which is where the tool part comes in, since you can't just blindly trust it), since at first it would give me crazy financials like 700% ROI on something simple like ROI projections for a restaurant, but after refining my "verbiage formula" I'll call it and figuring out how to upload statistical info and make it cite what its using that I don't give it myself, It's an excellent tool.
Like I said, its a tool. No different from google searching or a Texas Instruments Calculator. Just more advanced. If you know how to use it and refine it, it works excellent for its purpose. If you just blindly trust it then you get REALLY stupid responses.
For example, there was a semi viral video a while back of some black woman asking ChatGPT what would happen if all the black people left to africa as far as the economy goes and it was ridiculous crap like 7 trillion dollars in financial activity would shift from the US to Africa, and crap like that. Didn't account for any extraneous factors or broader geopolitical and economic factors either.
I stand by what I said. It's a good tool, but like any tool, if you're dumb and just blindly trust it, then you'll obviously have problems. For anything important you'd always double check it. I'll often ask it for general information (with citations) and then build up the information gathering myself from there while confirming it in a different tab, and then once I've found all the information I need, just frontload the question in a new chat (since chat degradation is a thing), and refine the data with back and forths until I'm satisfied that its within an acceptable margin of error that logically makes sense, and then go and confirm it myself