This is a very good assessment IMO. This line in particular: I think too many people ascribe sentinance/intelligence to it because of this. And its failure as a search engine demonstrates that...
This is a very good assessment IMO. This line in particular:
ChatGPT is a tool. It’s a tool that tricks you into thinking it knows more than it does. But once you learn its capabilities it’s useful.
I think too many people ascribe sentinance/intelligence to it because of this. And its failure as a search engine demonstrates that there isn't a deeper thought/learning to it.
I too have come to the conclusion that ChatGPT is useful in some very specific contexts. Especially if you need to do that enum thing at a small enough scale its not worth building a proper script, but large enough. Its useful for throwing together a skeleton of a program. Sometimes I think the effort of generating working prompt and proofreading result far exceeds the time it would have taken for me to do myself.
In the scope of the 80/20 rule, ChatGPT and its ilk will help tremendously with that 80% of easy stuff. Its not gonna help much with the 20% of the hard stuff.
Which brings around that conundrum of experience again. Various AI tools really speed up (and thus obviate) a lot of that beginner busywork that serves as a useful stepping stone towards being able to do that 20% of hard stuff effectively.
We're going to need solutions to bridge the gap between 0 and expert better than we currently have. AI assistance is gonna cripple the next gen of learners until we do. Look at how elementary/middle schools needed to ban calculators in their learning environments. Punching numbers in a calculator does not teach you math. Now extend that to vast swaths of knowledge work, and we begin to see the scope of the problem.
This is a very good assessment IMO. This line in particular:
I think too many people ascribe sentinance/intelligence to it because of this. And its failure as a search engine demonstrates that there isn't a deeper thought/learning to it.
I too have come to the conclusion that ChatGPT is useful in some very specific contexts. Especially if you need to do that enum thing at a small enough scale its not worth building a proper script, but large enough. Its useful for throwing together a skeleton of a program. Sometimes I think the effort of generating working prompt and proofreading result far exceeds the time it would have taken for me to do myself.
In the scope of the 80/20 rule, ChatGPT and its ilk will help tremendously with that 80% of easy stuff. Its not gonna help much with the 20% of the hard stuff.
Which brings around that conundrum of experience again. Various AI tools really speed up (and thus obviate) a lot of that beginner busywork that serves as a useful stepping stone towards being able to do that 20% of hard stuff effectively.
We're going to need solutions to bridge the gap between 0 and expert better than we currently have. AI assistance is gonna cripple the next gen of learners until we do. Look at how elementary/middle schools needed to ban calculators in their learning environments. Punching numbers in a calculator does not teach you math. Now extend that to vast swaths of knowledge work, and we begin to see the scope of the problem.