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Thursday, December 19. 2024

Chat GPT search

Have you tried it?


I did some trial runs, such as "Are there snakes in New Zealand?"



Posted by Bird Dog at 13:33 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Asking it a question like that isn't any different than a basic e-search. It can create things based on its own e-searches.

I know some people I work with use it to compose memos, policies, and various forms. It seems like it takes just as long tweaking one of those as it does to create it yourself.

I talked to a vendor that uses it to dumb down his emails into 6th grade reading level for his co-workers. He said it works great.
#1 jack walter on 2024-12-19 14:08 (Reply)
I know a lot of people do not like ChatGPT but I have been having a lot of fun with it. I made a YouTube film this year where I played four parts and one of them was a devil and one was a lawyer and I needed to use ChatGPT to give me the legal reasons a document with the devil was not going to hold up in court and ChatGPT did a wonderful job. I have also used it to give me good questions to ask my doctor about a symptom. It doesn't like to answer really hard questions about immigration and social problems and sometimes makes things up but overall it's been a positive experience
#2 Robert Moffett (Link) on 2024-12-19 17:19 (Reply)
I find Perplexity very useful for researching topics; you get a lot less irrelevant trash than you do with Google, and it does provide links to sources. But you can't totally trust it. I asked it to review a book written by someone I know, and it came back with a pretty solid review. But then I asked it a follow-up question (about one specific character in the book) and it went totally crazy, started giving responses from a totally different book with the same title but with a different author.
#3 David Foster (Link) on 2024-12-19 18:59 (Reply)
Are there snakes in New Zealand?
#4 RebeccaH on 2024-12-19 19:00 (Reply)
No, but yes.
#4.1 Reptitleist on 2024-12-19 19:11 (Reply)
I asked ChatGPT to give me the top reasons why Global warming
skeptics were skeptical about man-made global warming, and ChatGPT refused to do so, claiming that the argument against man-made global warming had no merit.
After debating it for a while, ChatGPT finally admitted that global warming is still a theory and cannot be proved one way or another. It also claimed that we humans still do not know the current global temperature.
#5 Phil Taylor on 2024-12-19 23:05 (Reply)
I wish there was a way to remove all of these extraneous things from the PC and my phone. I have in the past removed things from my phone and PC but with negative results as they tend to be interlaced with other apps and cause them to malfunction. Two of my worst mistakes were: I removed google from my phone and lost all my contacts, LOL. I honestly thought my contacts were stored on my phone. Finding out that they are stored in Googles cloud was kind of bizarre. Why do they want them??? My other disaster was trying to rid my computer of the One Drive/the cloud. I lost everything I had saved in the previous 12 months. Yeah stupid I know. I should have known better. Fortunately I run two PC's one of which I never connect to the internet and was able to recover my lost files. They force these things on you and all of these unwanted apps steal your data. There should be a simple option to cleanly rid your computer of any and all of these intrusive apps.
#6 JustMe on 2024-12-20 09:20 (Reply)
use grok instead (X); more accurate; less biased
#7 ns on 2024-12-20 10:44 (Reply)

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