I use chatgpt almost daily. I use it like I used to use google in a lot of situations. Now GOOGLE frustrates me to use as a search engine. "How many hours ago was june 1st 1972" and you get links to time/date calculators instead of the answer. Then I'll click through a few and they won't even be what I need. Then I sigh and type it into chatgpt and it answers it.
I don't assume any code is perfect, but I talk to it like it's my rubber duck and it helps me figure out different ways to do something, or sometimes even hand holds me.
And now I don't have to ever do regex.
And hey my past engineering teachers, guess what, I haven't had to mathematically slice a subnet up without a subnet calculator either in my entire career.
Payload of the answer: "So, approximately 455,796 hours have passed since June 1, 1972, as of February 16, 2024."
Today (as I write this) minus 455,796 hours: https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?m1=2&d1=16&y...
Which is Thursday, February 17, 1972. Since it just did the year and ignored the month you were asking about. (I accidentally deleted my first conversation instead of sharing it but it gave this answer twice.)
The real question though isn't whether ChatGPT is wrong, the real question is, can you detect it? That's going to be the important question here going forward.
https://chat.openai.com/share/d5264b01-3be5-4d59-b175-34ad90...
"June 1st, 1972 was approximately 453,304 hours ago."
Code it generated and ran:
from datetime import datetime
# Current date and time
now = datetime.now()
# Date and time for June 1st, 1972
then = datetime(1972, 6, 1)
# Calculate the difference in hours
difference = (now - then).total_seconds() / 3600
How are regular users meant to know that they should hint it to use Code Interpreter mode for a question like this?
I need to dig more into how much more I can do.
"= 453288 hours" as the first result, above any links.
I feel like my account is gonna look like a Kagi shill pretty soon but it really is so much better than Google now. The Kagi + GPT4 combo is so much better than Google alone 1.5 years ago.
while in other media the results are very interesting and impactful, most corporate scenarios are getting a lot more excited about text. but the weight of text and its correctness goes way beyond other forms of media, and the current approach is being overstated for its effectiveness.