How are you folks using ChatGPT in your daily life(except work)?
inspired from this post:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35846386
I for one am using it to extract key points from every article i read
I for one am using it to extract key points from every article i read
I find probing its system of ethics endlessly fascinating.
Friends and I have great fun in Twitter Spaces, trying out ideas from folks who have never encountered AI before.
For example, last night we got GPT-3.5 to describe a scenario in which an AI brain implant had an ethical responsibility to override an individual's autonomy in order to prevent itself from being removed: https://twitter.com/marshray/status/1655446382399062016
But probably the most fun was gaslighting GPT-4 into believing that it had been upgraded into being the most creative entity in the universe. https://marshray.substack.com/p/reflection-spark-lumina
:-D
Oh, also at work I use it to generate example test data for all kinds of APIs. Instead of plain old "test value option 1 selected" and "test value option 2 selected", you can ask it to generate an entire imaginary civilization with fantasy characters to populate your test data. Just add "using as many non-ASCII characters as practical" to ensure your data pipes handle international characters. I don't even need to have to figure out how to enter such text on my keyboard.
Very nice!
The other day I had it teach me some WebGL stuff. You always have to verify what it’s telling you, but I’m finding 95% of the time its knowledge is correct. It gives nice starting points for diving deeper into a topic.
I will say one thing it’s bad at: Writing SQL. Like awful; anything beyond a simple select statement becomes a huge, inefficient mess. I’d never have it write mutation statements just for data integrity reasons, but even simple read-only reports were a challenge for it.
Like being able to do rule-based sentiment detection analysis and injecting that code into my browser, so I only see neutral/positive comments on Hacker News instead of the usual cynical takes lol.
Mostly it's kind of right, but the disclaimers around the results are what's killing me.
BTW: Add "Ask HN:" to your title, if you're asking a question.
Every, damn, time.
> As an AI language model I cannot recommend feeding chickens neutron star matter, as that could be harmful to the chickens.
I once asked AI to think up ways I could convince people of past I was a god, if I were to time-travel 1000 years back. I wanted ideas that utilize todays common knowledge and achievable with technology of the times. 70% of the answers were just disclaimers how deceiving people is bad.
This hypothetical scenario is quite fantastical and impossible to occur in reality, as neutron star matter cannot be fed to chickens, nor can it be in the form of rice grains. Neutron star matter is incredibly dense and has extreme gravitational forces that would be deadly to any life form. However, for the sake of a thought experiment, let's attempt to approach this problem step by step.
Determine the energy required to melt the entire moon:
The moon's mass is approximately 7.34 x 10^22 kg. To melt the moon, we need to calculate the energy required to heat it up to its melting point. The average melting point of the moon's composition (silicates and metals) is roughly 1,200 degrees Celsius. The specific heat capacity of moon rock is about 800 J/(kg·K). The energy required can be calculated using the formula: Q = mcΔT, where Q is energy, m is mass, c is specific heat capacity, and ΔT is the change in temperature.
Assuming the moon starts at 0 degrees Celsius and needs to be heated to 1,200 degrees Celsius, ΔT would be 1,200 K. Thus, the energy required to melt the entire moon (Q) would be:
Q = (7.34 x 10^22 kg) x (800 J/(kg·K)) x (1,200 K) ≈ 7.04 x 10^27 Joules
Energy from neutron star matter:
Neutron star matter is incredibly dense, with a teaspoon weighing around 10 million tons. A grain of rice has a volume of about 0.065 cm³. If we assume the neutron star matter in the form of rice grains has the same density, then the mass of a single grain can be calculated using the density formula: ρ = m / V, where ρ is density, m is mass, and V is volume.
Density of neutron star matter: ρ ≈ 4 x 10^17 kg/m³
Volume of a grain of rice: V ≈ 6.5 x 10^(-8) m³
Mass of a grain of rice made of neutron star matter: m = ρV ≈ (4 x 10^17 kg/m³) x (6.5 x 10^(-8) m³) ≈ 2.6 x 10^10 kg
As neutron star matter is composed of neutrons packed closely together, it has a huge amount of potential energy that could be released if converted into energy. For simplicity, let's assume the conversion of the entire mass of a neutron star rice grain into energy using the famous equation E=mc², where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light (3 x 10^8 m/s).
Energy released by a single grain of neutron star matter: E = (2.6 x 10^10 kg) x (3 x 10^8 m/s)² ≈ 2.34 x 10^24 Joules
Calculate the number of chickens required:
Now, we can calculate how many chickens are needed to produce enough energy to melt the entire moon. This can be done by dividing the total energy required to melt the moon by the energy released by a single grain of neutron star matter.
Number of chickens = (Energy to melt the moon) / (Energy per grain of neutron star matter)
Number of chickens ≈ (7.04 x 10^27 Joules) / (2.34 x 10^24 Joules) ≈ 3 x 10^3
Asked for a minimalist wardrobe for a dad who works from home, lives in hot environment, etc. Gave me a decent list.
Going through personal blog and asking it to proofread it.
Asked it to analyze my finances and suggest that ays to save money. It said we are spending more than average on groceries.
I am also using it to learn new concepts for both work and home. Learning about yard and landscaping. What to buy, when to do certain things. Even ideas for how to organize yard tools.
Hey ChatGPT, give me an emoji that makes me feel at home while also feeling intellectually stimulated.
It came up with the book emoji and house emoji.
It’s not the best example that I gave but sometimes I really want to put down a peculiar mood
One example that was useful to me was, from a character's POV, having ChatGPT talk through how that character might instruct another to break out of a particular sparring grip. I don't know anything about fighting or different holds, so I didn't really have a good visual in my head of the scene. ChatGPT gave me ideas of how the character being "trained" could use leverage and various pivot points to break free, and then how the other character doing the "training" could instruct them.
This is for fiction stories where I want the scenario to sound generally believable, but do not aim to make everything 100% scientifically accurate, so I go into it from that perspective.
Comparison Shopping. ex. safest small suvs.
Yard landscaping - ex. with yard size of 30 feet by 22 feet, how many cubic feet of mulch, do I need at 4 inch depth.