I have used it at the very beginning but I've been mostly disappointed aside of few examples.
Things it proved useful for:
- learning new programming languages and solving hackerrank or codewars katas in languages I didn't know. It sped up and lowered my learning curve.
- writing recommendation letters based on my inputs ("write a recommendation letter for X, knowing those are his strengths and what he's good at).
Things it proved terrible for:
- personal assistant. I was hoping to use ChatGPT as a tool that would help me reason. I did try to use it as a companion learning the new Epic Games programming language "Verse". ChatGPT proved absolutely terrible for this task. I would feed him paragraphs about verse calculus, from the pdf and then question him about what I fed him, but have few exchanges more and he would start allucinating.
- text editing. I tried to feed him paragraphs and then tell him, modify this or that. But it's capped in the number of tokens and it would make mistakes. Say I told him "modify this line", he would reprint it, but if I told him "hey, so what's paragraph 2", again he would get stale versions
- calendar assistant. I would tell him what my priorities and appointments where but it was very unhelpful to provide help and required much too much interaction.
In the end I just stopped using it, besides few niche use cases (which haven't happened recently) it just does not provide value where I want to find this value: as an assistant.
I'm still moderately optimistic about such use cases being a reality in the future, because the idea of having a companion I can converse with about my daily tasks and work tasks (sort of a jarvis) is really where I expect to find value.
Where I don't expect it to provide value is overhyped things like google or bing search, there I want to find websites.
Things it proved useful for:
- learning new programming languages and solving hackerrank or codewars katas in languages I didn't know. It sped up and lowered my learning curve.
- writing recommendation letters based on my inputs ("write a recommendation letter for X, knowing those are his strengths and what he's good at).
Things it proved terrible for:
- personal assistant. I was hoping to use ChatGPT as a tool that would help me reason. I did try to use it as a companion learning the new Epic Games programming language "Verse". ChatGPT proved absolutely terrible for this task. I would feed him paragraphs about verse calculus, from the pdf and then question him about what I fed him, but have few exchanges more and he would start allucinating.
- text editing. I tried to feed him paragraphs and then tell him, modify this or that. But it's capped in the number of tokens and it would make mistakes. Say I told him "modify this line", he would reprint it, but if I told him "hey, so what's paragraph 2", again he would get stale versions
- calendar assistant. I would tell him what my priorities and appointments where but it was very unhelpful to provide help and required much too much interaction.
In the end I just stopped using it, besides few niche use cases (which haven't happened recently) it just does not provide value where I want to find this value: as an assistant.
I'm still moderately optimistic about such use cases being a reality in the future, because the idea of having a companion I can converse with about my daily tasks and work tasks (sort of a jarvis) is really where I expect to find value.
Where I don't expect it to provide value is overhyped things like google or bing search, there I want to find websites.