I would pay several hundred dollars a month to keep access to GPT-4, and never found any use at all for crypto. There might be hype, but there’s also an insane amount of utility
It’s a better StackOverflow and better than most project or dev docs for me: I’m an experienced developer who’s writing Python for the first time. I know what I want to achieve each time (how do I produce the Typing type for…) but I find it much easier to use GPT.
I use it to search for books or films or video games where I half remember the details, and it gives me options.
I recently finished a dissertation (on GPT, as it turns out) and it was useful for me to research sensible correlation types I could use and build out my understanding (“wait, is Spearman’s rank is just Pearson in the rank order?”). Also I could copy and paste sentences I didn’t understand about methodologies in papers I was reading, or ask it abstract questions like “is there a standard name for a modified Likert scale but with a ‘not enough data’ option”.
I was really struggling to work out how to change just one page orientation in Word, on a Mac. First few Google results I had talked about the Windows version, which had features mine didn’t have. GPT put me onto section breaks.
Was Caffè Nero named after the emperor, checking my intuition about how short-term SSH auth certs work, jq recipes, why were Man U so popular when I was a kid, why did they suddenly start winning more often?
I am curious about a lot of things, and GPT provides me instant answers without having to click through bullshit. If it’s something it needs to be right about I can double-check it’s answers. I am averaging ten topics a day on it, most have a bunch of follow-up questions.
So it's like a normal search but where you don't need to reformat and rearrange the result to suit your needs.