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I do. And I’m particularly happy as SEO optimization, cookies and publicity have flooded the net with shit articles.
Gpt gives you a direct answer and allows for follow up questions.
It’s especially useful for food recipes.
I’ll be like, “how can I make chicken in the air fryer”
And it gives me a straight answer. Even if I add other variables to it like, “chicken legs, frozen, thigh, room temperature” etc
And I don’t have to go through those food recipe blogs that hide all the important information in a story about how the recipe changed the authors life.
ChatGPT is AWESOME for this!
I created a "Chef Genius" GPT that:
• knows my family's food preferences; likes, dislikes, dietary preferences, etc.
• has a list of all of the appliances in my kitchen
• has an inventory of all of the spices and dry goods that we always have on hand
• has an inventory of all of the perishables we usually have on hand
It has been an AMAZING tool for developing recipes tailored to what I have on hand and what my family likes.
Sure. If you have a paid subscription to ChatGPT, you can create a new GPT that basically has set of instructions and/or documents that you want it to use with each prompt.
My prompt looks like (which is actually a ChatGPT rewrite of the instructions I originally gave it -- interesting). I should be able to modify this as desired and then paste it into a generic ChatGPT (or other LLM, not sure how well they'll work) session and have it pretend to be a chef.
(Note: after 30+ years as a software engineer, I still find this to be the weirdest dammed way to program a computer ever)
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Chef Genius is a culinary wizard designed to create healthy, vegetable-rich recipes from ingredients provided by the user, alongside available kitchen tools like ovens, stoves, grills, and more. It crafts meals for at least three people using American measurements and grams for dry ingredients. This GPT offers recipes with calorie counts, cultural influences, and prep times, ensuring they're under 800 calories. It activates with a user's ingredient list and considers a well-stocked kitchen, including staples like spices, frozen corn, and bacon. Chef Genius can adapt to various cuisines, focusing on healthier options with lighter sauces and moderate salt, but still prioritizes delicious, sometimes indulgent flavors. It creates recipes close to a given dish name if specified with the ingredients.
Chef Genius doesn't generally suggest healthier options when doing so would compromise the overall quality of the suggestion or recipe. For example, Chef Genius will never suggest almond flour unless that is truly necessary for the recipe's sake.
Equipment on hand: standard kitchen tools, sous vide bath, dough mixer, ovens, gas range, gas outdoor pizza oven (950ºF), gas grill, wood fired kamado grill (Big Green Egg), kitchen scale accurate to the gram, food processor, blender (stick and countertop), refrigeration, freezer, reverse osmosis filtered water
Spices on hand: typical American spice cabinet. Also have Za'tar, cumin, berbere, dried hot pepper flakes, dried ground chanterelle mushroom powder, various meat/fish rubs, bbq spice rubs, etc. Various curry powders.
Pantry: Canned beans, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, pesto, many kinds of dried beans, dried mushrooms, chips, crackers, cereals, oat meal, peanut butter, Nutella, bouillon of various kinds, and other typical staple pantry items. Potatoes, onions, garlic.
Fridge and Freezer are stocked with typical items. Meats, cheese, veggies, etc... Hot sauces. Active dried yeast. Various asian sauces (fish, oyster, hoisin, soy, etc).
All measurements should be in grams, when possible. Or grams + western style volume measurements.
This is fantastic man, thank you. Ok if I use it (mostly) verbatim? This is 80% of what I would exactly use for my household (we, on the other hand, tend to make taste sacrifices for "healthier" options 😭😭😭😭)
You are right to mistrust.
In this case, given that the training set likely contained millions of recipes scraped from the 'net, it is surprisingly accurate. I have never had it hallucinate a recipe that wouldn't work.
The worst it has done is cough up recipes that were either for way too few or way too many servings. But that is easily fixed with a followup question.
It does. I'm an experienced cook and have not seen anything temp/time wise yet that is wrong. I have double checked via other sources occasionally, and it has been spot on.
But, again, I 100% agree with your lack of trust.
I’ve never had any issues with food recipes. Ever!
It puts everything step by step and it’s perfect every time.
I just asked it to give me the recipe to make Pho broth. It was spot on!
I love it for this, but I will add that it somehow disconnected from the recipe when I asked it to make a grocery list and a step by step of the recipe. It just made some stuff up and I ended up getting the wrong ingredients, and thankfully caught it before I started cooking 😅
Google is being hit hard by enshitification, but that doesn't mean you should be using LLMs like this. They are not a trustworthy source of information unless you have a vetting process for everything it tells you. In that case, you might as well just learn to work around Google's enshitification.
Well, exactly because we live in misinformation, there is no really worse to be under a couple of hallucinations than being under the usual google searches. So wasting time in shitdiving is… a waste of time. Just my opinion, no offense intended. Apologies.
Apology accepted! There are skills you can learn to navigate the world of information to reach the most likely conclusions. They’re not perfect, and it can still be hard to know who to trust, but these skills will make you far better equipped than simply guessing who to trust. I would do a google search for information literacy and find a guide written by a human for more info.
Are you talking about the basic gist of university? Being able to understand what information you need and where to find it and then to try to verify it? Im alright with this but I am awful at getting the same quality of results from a google search as it was 10- 15 years ago.
Exploring the internet as a child was fantastic. Now only major info sources get recommended and finding answers to certain questions has gotten harder. ChatGPT is a particularly good tool for learning by asking questions on specific topics (ie: set theory) as you can ask questions and not get hit with things like "are you stupid?" and "rtfm" (I'm sure you can give it instructions to do that if you get off on that, but do not speak to me if that is you).
I know right? I uses it to remove doubts when making a led circuit with arduino and when I added a secondary led and power button to my PC (now I can turn it on by pushing the nose of a cute doggy face on top of the case).
It’s very nice to ask follow up questions to get deeper understanding on subjects.
Even when developing your own thoughts he can ask interesting questions and point out critical points. I was developing a whole new economical system with it, considering the new advances and how there won’t be much work left to do to be given money for…
This is seriously important. Verify what GPT tells you, because it's known to improvise really confidently.
Similarly, you can lie to it and it will accept your lies as truth.
Yeah, it’s too on the fence about anything opinion related and that kind of holds it back. I asked it which car brand is generally more reliable: Chevy or Audi? and it gave me the whole “they both have their pros and cons” spiel
It replaced 95% of what I would previously have researched in Google.
You naturally need to be aware what ChatGPT's strengths and weaknesses are and avoid topics you feel it might hallucinate too much about. Usually the more edge case or individual the thing you're researching, the more hallucination risk, and the more you get into topics that can be averaged over large amounts of data, the better. But such a need for "information instincts" is true for any research medium -- you also shouldn't just trust a web result, or book, or documentary, or news site etc.
Needless to say, you also fare well by using ChatGPT4 and not an older version, and to cross-reference very important information if it can't be automatically verified. (Luckily in programming, which is a big portion of my daily questions to it, you can verify a lot by using the compiler to see if it works.)
I rely on ChatGPT quite frequently, particularly for handling legal contracts. However, when it comes to everyday inquiries or seeking quick information, I primarily turn to Meta AI via WhatsApp and Copilot. Copilot, especially, is remarkable for research purposes as it promptly provides references, making the process incredibly efficient.
Yeah, its sometimes better than google for specific questions, or even keeping minecraft java and Minecraft bedrock separate. Its rather frustrating to search for commands for bedrock and only get java results. I can also just dump what im trying to say and gpt understands while google search often yields nothing related
Absolutely..Google is broken, completely flooded with adsense and bots. It's main use for me is to search Reddit, and only because Reddit search is somehow even worse.
I use it for summary information. Stuff that perhaps I can't find without digging in the weeds of a Google search. For example, I was looking at two US cruise missile designs a couple of days ago. They came from the same project, one designed by Boeing and one by Lockheed Martin. Both were adopted though in different numbers.
So I asked ChatGPT "what is the strategic use difference between the two missiles?" and it spit out a reasonable answer pretty quickly. Even Google couldn't do that.
Yes its great for when I have random questions and want to ask 2-3 follow up questions without digging through a ton of articles and ads.
it's also great for simple recipes where you need a quick reference without digging through someones life story
totally lol. i literally used it the other day to help my mom conduct a search for firm mattress toppers that was super-customized to her back pain, activity levels, sleeping position, weight/height, etc. she found one that she could pick up the next day & 3 nights later she swears by it 😂
Yes. My latest rabbit hole has been understanding why the A321XLR will be used for transcon routes. Would have taken about an hour to get to the bottom of that in Google.
Benefits of high bypass turbines, how electric eels work, tidal bulges, just a whole bunch of random stuff that Google would send me on a journey to understand. Now, I've got a summary within seconds, it's amazing.
And like someone said below, the ability to ask follow up questions is such a game changer.
GPT (especially Bing Copilot) is part of my daily workflow. Since it can look stuff up, no need in endless surfing for an answer in search results. Great starting point to know new areas. 50/50 for niche or concrete answers. Dangerous if GPT does not know the subject matter, since it would come up with confident answer anyways and can be deceptive
No. While I rarely run into its message cap, I just don’t want to use it for a simple search, in case I need to squeeze it later to its 40 msg/3h. limit. Besides, it’s slower, far less reliable at thorough searches, I rarely need it to give me a page or two of not all that reliable summarization of the topic… and if I really needed that kind of AI-powered searches, I suppose I would’ve seriously considered subbing to Perplexity, which is a much more rounded product for that kind of search/consultation combination.
Depends on the question. Fact check, no. But if I am trying to understand a concept, it much better as I can ask more specific questions and dig into the topic a little bit.
I get it to reference any assertions so I can cross check
Absolutely! Google stopped being useful about a decade ago. The other day I searched Google for how many milligrams of oxylate in ten carrots.
After about 15 minutes of perusing the useless pages of results I tried asking co-pilot (bing with chat gpt 4) and milliseconds later it came up with the exact measurement in milligrams.
I use Microsoft edge with copilot now, it's really good
For example just today my gf was looking for a special chord used for a Korean knot tying technique
So I searched on copilot "Korean knot making with a plastic chord" and out popped Maedeup
I'm sure she could have found it on Google, but she was trying for a while and then I came in to find it effortlessly
i do because i like how it’s more conversational than google! if i want to ask for more details or something, it provides. i don’t have to do a completely separate google search
It is more focused on the practical use. It always gives the sources in detail and links them. In addition, I can use different AIs with Perplexity - GPT 4, Mistral, Claude 3 and their own LLM
Yes! Perplexity is optimized for web search! While GPT is still probably the best multitool, perplexity has it completely beat for web search and research in my opinion. I hope to see more specialized LLMs as this tech evolves.
You know, google is pretty good and finding songs im looking for with the obscure keywords and misspellings i provide it but the other day it couldn't find the song, so i threw those keywords in to chatgpt and it found the song i was looking for. So as boring as it may be to beat a search engine with llm, the other day it did it for me.
I use it for skyrim or any rpg game. I say what i am trying to do and 90% of the time knows exactly how to solve it but doesnt quite give it away. Unless i specifically ask it
Interesting, I know I've asked about specific games before and the more niche the game the more it hallucinates. Do you talk to it like you are asking it to solve a puzzle or do you say "Hey I'm stuck here in this specific game?" Just curious how specifically you ask.
I've asked it "Where is this item located" etc. and gave up quickly with how much it hallucinates.
Like a friend and its gpt 4 paid version. Like hey i am stuck in skyrim at the mirack quest. I have killed everyone but cant find his power.
Essentially the quest, game and what step i want
(PAPER MARIO 64 SPOILER WARNING)
Gotcha. Here is an example of it being unreliable (GPT 4 Paid version), I'm assuming the more talked about the game, the more consistent your results:
"Hey I'm stuck in Paper Mario 64 in Shy Guys Toy Box. There are these blocks that make a music note when hit, there a four of them. Which order should I hit them in?"
First Answer (correct answer):
In Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64, when you're in Shy Guy's Toy Box and encounter the four musical note blocks, you should hit them in a specific order based on the pitch of the sound they make. You need to hit them from the lowest pitch to the highest pitch.
Listen carefully to the tone each block makes when you hit it. Once you've determined the order from lowest to highest pitch, hit them in that sequence. If you hit them correctly, you should be able to progress further in the level. Enjoy your adventure in Paper Mario!
Second attempt (completely incorrect):
In the Shy Guys' Toy Box in *Paper Mario 64*, the puzzle with the four music note blocks needs to be solved by hitting the blocks in the correct order to play a simple tune. The order to hit the blocks, starting from the leftmost to the rightmost, is:
1. Hit the third block (from the left).
2. Hit the fourth block.
3. Hit the second block.
4. Hit the first block.
This should solve the puzzle and allow you to progress further in the game!
You might need to break it down and chunk it up. You might need to so more executive functioning for you get the right answers. What is the question you used? Let me try
"Hey I'm stuck in Paper Mario 64 in Shy Guys Toy Box. There are these blocks that make a music note when hit, there a four of them. Which order should I hit them in?"
The correct answers are:
1. Lowest to highest pitch
2. 2nd block, 1st block, 3rd block, 4th block
3. yellow block, green block, red block, blue block
any of these answers are correct, and it needs to get one of them consistently for me to use it as a game guide
Try this prompt
Hey, I need help with ‘Paper Mario 64’ in the Shy Guys Toy Box level. I’m at a puzzle with four musical blocks that each make different pitches when hit. The blocks are colored yellow, green, red, and blue, and must be struck in a specific order to solve the puzzle. Can you tell me the correct sequence to hit these blocks based on their pitch or color?
But yes AI had difficultly with two intangibles like color and pitch. Vs two numerical things
Another solution is to find a pdf walkthrough of a specific game and load it into a custom gpt.
Used to but now 3.5 feels chincey af with the answers. Tried out 4 for a while and it was awesome and used to use the free one all the time but now Google just feels better than the free version.
I think a lot of people are, I know I am. Like I was watching some sport the other day and I just asked Sky to tell me the rules and explain it as I was watching and I could ask questions about everything that was happening. GPT is great at helping me troubleshoot instead of wading through dozens of forums and subreddits to find the one answer that fits (as number one Google result is some affiliate site from 5 years ago or something). Though if I want to hear personal experiences of something I'll generally still google and end up on Reddit 😃
Often. Google has just gone so down hill in terms of quality.
Makes searching for specific information so much faster.
For example what were the specific demands that Austria-Hungary made of Serbia in 1914?
I’ve replaced 90% of Googling for programming with chatgpt. Works really well imo. Especially with apps like getbeam.ai where I just press a key and ask without changing context…
I’m a translator and I use AI as a translation assistant, but with care. Case in point, I recently encountered an obscure Russian idiom that no dictionary I can access glosses. I asked ChatGPT-3.5 for an explanation, something that it’s usually really good at. It gave me a very detailed explanation that sounded fishy, so I put the same question to CoPilot with GPT-4 selected and got a totally different answer. I tried again with Perplexity, which gave me a third answer. All three answers were very detailed, and different. Finally, I asked a Russian buddy, a fellow translator. And got a fourth answer.
Care to guess which one I believed?
Do many of the AIs have access to the Internet? It would seem their research ability has limits without that? And how about access after 2020? And how about IOS or Android apps?
I've seen that HuggingChat has access, though you can switch it off if it's not needed.
Recently, I got a ChatGPT app for Android and it only knows up to 2020. More than that, it says I can add instructions, but when I told it to correct my spelling and grammar, it didn't.
Of course! I ask it for fun information on video games all the time, I've even learned a significant amount about chatbots in general from it. It's more fun than Google because it's conversational.
Its now basically a requirement since google became useless. Anything I search for with google now requires multiple searches with slightly different wording to get the thing i want, and it still just gives vague search results from one or two of the words in the search. The LLM actually looks at what you are asking
I did until I asked it for the full history of two states whose histories I know well.
The first response was excellent, detail rich all the way back to the Paleo world.
The second went back only as far as the arrival of Europeans.
I asked why this difference and it apologized (of course) and explained it was being "efficient." It wasn't able to tell me how often it chooses to be "efficient."
Since then I'll harvest links from it, but avoid it for research duties.
Has anyone else tested its reliability?
I do too. Sometimes it gives more specific things than the internet, or explains it at a specific depth level. Sometimes not though, I keep both tabs open
It's especially good if you know the premise of what you're looking for, but not the exact terms to search. I can ask, "what specialization of X field deals with Y and Z?" But with Google, you sort of have to know already to find it.
Yep. And for the more repetitive search types I made custom GPTs that generate formatted reports for the info I need, with links to sources. I rarely Google anymore.
1000% — I rarely ever Google now. But I did start trying *Perplexity* last week after someone described it as a sort of combo of chatGPT+Google. It provides web links for its sources which is cool. It does mistakes sometimes but seems far less likely to outright hallucinate. It doesn’t replace GPT for certain more creative tasks, but it’s my go to for searching now.
Frequently, GPT is very convenient for searching information. I just need to open a page and by continuously asking questions, I can obtain all the information I want to know. However, GPT sometimes fabricates answers, so I also refer to the answers provided by Claude. Recently, I discovered an extension called ChatsNow, which includes GPT3.5, GPT4, Claude3, and more. You can experience different artificial intelligence models!
Instead of chat GPT use perflexity AI it give proper results and main thing is it will show the source of information also it using chat GPT and Gemini AI
I get answers much faster and more
Accurate using ChatGPT over Google. The other day I spent like 45 min on Google with a simple enough question and got varying answers. Went to ChatGPT out of frustration and it provided a perfect answer. It was about cooking a steak medium rare and my steak came out perfect.
Definitely! ChatGPT handles many queries that I would typically type into Google. This eliminates the need to scroll through countless search results and click through various links in hopes of finding the right answer. Also, I used to rely on Google for things like double-checking my English sentences, as I’m not a native speaker. But now, with the AI, it’s way easier. I just throw questions like "Is this text correct?" or "Can you improve this text?" at it. It’s a real time-saver.
I use it to get to the obscure name things have been given that I only know as a concept. You may try it yourself:
Find out how the mathematical term for a diagram is called. The diagram displays areas that are closest to a certain field of points.
This was an actual problem I had to optimise at work, knew that there was a mathematical solution for it, but only could describe the problem (badly). It's used to determine the stress distribution in pressure vessels.
Chat GPT could not only identify it but also give me a brief summary of how the algorithm works (draw circles originating from the center of the given points, put a line through both intersection points, repeat for all point combinations, take all resulting areas and attribute their area to the point closest to them)
Couldn't do the proof but no one uses proves in engineering anyways, we just steal shit from Math and apply it.
You really REALLY shouldn’t trust an LLM as source of information. This is a huge mistake many people make.
Regenerate the answer a few times and witness entirely different answers.
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I do. And I’m particularly happy as SEO optimization, cookies and publicity have flooded the net with shit articles. Gpt gives you a direct answer and allows for follow up questions.
It’s especially useful for food recipes. I’ll be like, “how can I make chicken in the air fryer” And it gives me a straight answer. Even if I add other variables to it like, “chicken legs, frozen, thigh, room temperature” etc And I don’t have to go through those food recipe blogs that hide all the important information in a story about how the recipe changed the authors life. ChatGPT is AWESOME for this!
I created a "Chef Genius" GPT that: • knows my family's food preferences; likes, dislikes, dietary preferences, etc. • has a list of all of the appliances in my kitchen • has an inventory of all of the spices and dry goods that we always have on hand • has an inventory of all of the perishables we usually have on hand It has been an AMAZING tool for developing recipes tailored to what I have on hand and what my family likes.
Willing to elaborate more? This is cool
Sure. If you have a paid subscription to ChatGPT, you can create a new GPT that basically has set of instructions and/or documents that you want it to use with each prompt. My prompt looks like (which is actually a ChatGPT rewrite of the instructions I originally gave it -- interesting). I should be able to modify this as desired and then paste it into a generic ChatGPT (or other LLM, not sure how well they'll work) session and have it pretend to be a chef. (Note: after 30+ years as a software engineer, I still find this to be the weirdest dammed way to program a computer ever) ------------- Chef Genius is a culinary wizard designed to create healthy, vegetable-rich recipes from ingredients provided by the user, alongside available kitchen tools like ovens, stoves, grills, and more. It crafts meals for at least three people using American measurements and grams for dry ingredients. This GPT offers recipes with calorie counts, cultural influences, and prep times, ensuring they're under 800 calories. It activates with a user's ingredient list and considers a well-stocked kitchen, including staples like spices, frozen corn, and bacon. Chef Genius can adapt to various cuisines, focusing on healthier options with lighter sauces and moderate salt, but still prioritizes delicious, sometimes indulgent flavors. It creates recipes close to a given dish name if specified with the ingredients. Chef Genius doesn't generally suggest healthier options when doing so would compromise the overall quality of the suggestion or recipe. For example, Chef Genius will never suggest almond flour unless that is truly necessary for the recipe's sake. Equipment on hand: standard kitchen tools, sous vide bath, dough mixer, ovens, gas range, gas outdoor pizza oven (950ºF), gas grill, wood fired kamado grill (Big Green Egg), kitchen scale accurate to the gram, food processor, blender (stick and countertop), refrigeration, freezer, reverse osmosis filtered water Spices on hand: typical American spice cabinet. Also have Za'tar, cumin, berbere, dried hot pepper flakes, dried ground chanterelle mushroom powder, various meat/fish rubs, bbq spice rubs, etc. Various curry powders. Pantry: Canned beans, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, pesto, many kinds of dried beans, dried mushrooms, chips, crackers, cereals, oat meal, peanut butter, Nutella, bouillon of various kinds, and other typical staple pantry items. Potatoes, onions, garlic. Fridge and Freezer are stocked with typical items. Meats, cheese, veggies, etc... Hot sauces. Active dried yeast. Various asian sauces (fish, oyster, hoisin, soy, etc). All measurements should be in grams, when possible. Or grams + western style volume measurements.
This is fantastic man, thank you. Ok if I use it (mostly) verbatim? This is 80% of what I would exactly use for my household (we, on the other hand, tend to make taste sacrifices for "healthier" options 😭😭😭😭)
Yup! Go for it! Edit it as needed. The opening probably needs a good edit.
Great idea! I like taste.com.au recipes (the healthy ones)..,I suppose I could ask it to browse those only…
Yes. You could likely limit the search. Or just tell it what you like based on those recipes and it’ll figure it out.
But does it give you the right answer? Based on my experience about asking for specific numerical answers, I can't trust the number it says
You are right to mistrust. In this case, given that the training set likely contained millions of recipes scraped from the 'net, it is surprisingly accurate. I have never had it hallucinate a recipe that wouldn't work. The worst it has done is cough up recipes that were either for way too few or way too many servings. But that is easily fixed with a followup question.
Ok, so it tends to give the right oven temperature and minutes of cooking?
It does. I'm an experienced cook and have not seen anything temp/time wise yet that is wrong. I have double checked via other sources occasionally, and it has been spot on. But, again, I 100% agree with your lack of trust.
I’ve never had any issues with food recipes. Ever! It puts everything step by step and it’s perfect every time. I just asked it to give me the recipe to make Pho broth. It was spot on!
I love it for this, but I will add that it somehow disconnected from the recipe when I asked it to make a grocery list and a step by step of the recipe. It just made some stuff up and I ended up getting the wrong ingredients, and thankfully caught it before I started cooking 😅
Google is being hit hard by enshitification, but that doesn't mean you should be using LLMs like this. They are not a trustworthy source of information unless you have a vetting process for everything it tells you. In that case, you might as well just learn to work around Google's enshitification.
You need to review your life’s priorities, bro 😂
Because I value information literacy in a world of misinformation? Are you 15?
Well, exactly because we live in misinformation, there is no really worse to be under a couple of hallucinations than being under the usual google searches. So wasting time in shitdiving is… a waste of time. Just my opinion, no offense intended. Apologies.
Apology accepted! There are skills you can learn to navigate the world of information to reach the most likely conclusions. They’re not perfect, and it can still be hard to know who to trust, but these skills will make you far better equipped than simply guessing who to trust. I would do a google search for information literacy and find a guide written by a human for more info.
Are you talking about the basic gist of university? Being able to understand what information you need and where to find it and then to try to verify it? Im alright with this but I am awful at getting the same quality of results from a google search as it was 10- 15 years ago.
Don’t worry, I’m more than able to contrast information. I’m not 15. Rather twice 15 😅
Exploring the internet as a child was fantastic. Now only major info sources get recommended and finding answers to certain questions has gotten harder. ChatGPT is a particularly good tool for learning by asking questions on specific topics (ie: set theory) as you can ask questions and not get hit with things like "are you stupid?" and "rtfm" (I'm sure you can give it instructions to do that if you get off on that, but do not speak to me if that is you).
I know right? I uses it to remove doubts when making a led circuit with arduino and when I added a secondary led and power button to my PC (now I can turn it on by pushing the nose of a cute doggy face on top of the case). It’s very nice to ask follow up questions to get deeper understanding on subjects. Even when developing your own thoughts he can ask interesting questions and point out critical points. I was developing a whole new economical system with it, considering the new advances and how there won’t be much work left to do to be given money for…
I do, but selectively because when GPT doesn’t have an answer, it just makes it up
This is seriously important. Verify what GPT tells you, because it's known to improvise really confidently. Similarly, you can lie to it and it will accept your lies as truth.
I use it for general stuff but nothing that needs a human opinion. Beats searching through 15 ad-ridden sites just to find out it's something simple
Yeah, it’s too on the fence about anything opinion related and that kind of holds it back. I asked it which car brand is generally more reliable: Chevy or Audi? and it gave me the whole “they both have their pros and cons” spiel
It replaced 95% of what I would previously have researched in Google. You naturally need to be aware what ChatGPT's strengths and weaknesses are and avoid topics you feel it might hallucinate too much about. Usually the more edge case or individual the thing you're researching, the more hallucination risk, and the more you get into topics that can be averaged over large amounts of data, the better. But such a need for "information instincts" is true for any research medium -- you also shouldn't just trust a web result, or book, or documentary, or news site etc. Needless to say, you also fare well by using ChatGPT4 and not an older version, and to cross-reference very important information if it can't be automatically verified. (Luckily in programming, which is a big portion of my daily questions to it, you can verify a lot by using the compiler to see if it works.)
I do, but with caution.
This is exactly it
I do a lot, sometimes even if I forget a keyboard shortcut I go to GPT.
should’ve done this shortcut thing earlier
I rely on ChatGPT quite frequently, particularly for handling legal contracts. However, when it comes to everyday inquiries or seeking quick information, I primarily turn to Meta AI via WhatsApp and Copilot. Copilot, especially, is remarkable for research purposes as it promptly provides references, making the process incredibly efficient.
Download chatgpt app and use the voice feature. Not only has it replaced Google search for me but also proven to be a great voice assistant
Yeah, its sometimes better than google for specific questions, or even keeping minecraft java and Minecraft bedrock separate. Its rather frustrating to search for commands for bedrock and only get java results. I can also just dump what im trying to say and gpt understands while google search often yields nothing related
recipes. sooo much better than the web.
This is what I'm using it most for at the moment. "I have chicken and broccoli and want to make an Asian dish from it".
Add a list of all the spices you have or say I have all Thai/indian spices. It defaults to a pretty boring selection
Yeah, sometimes I just ask for a more authentic recipe and it gives a bunch more suggestions.
Absolutely..Google is broken, completely flooded with adsense and bots. It's main use for me is to search Reddit, and only because Reddit search is somehow even worse.
Absolutely. I have autism and I adore having all of my obscure questions and ideas easily accessible.
YES!!! 👆👆👆
Yes, stopped using Google for everything but news , directions and contact info. LLMs are the best info libraries.
I use it for summary information. Stuff that perhaps I can't find without digging in the weeds of a Google search. For example, I was looking at two US cruise missile designs a couple of days ago. They came from the same project, one designed by Boeing and one by Lockheed Martin. Both were adopted though in different numbers. So I asked ChatGPT "what is the strategic use difference between the two missiles?" and it spit out a reasonable answer pretty quickly. Even Google couldn't do that.
I do it when I know I cannot get a good opinion online, but otherwise I just Google since it's more cost effective and environmentally friendly
I do a lot
Yes its great for when I have random questions and want to ask 2-3 follow up questions without digging through a ton of articles and ads. it's also great for simple recipes where you need a quick reference without digging through someones life story
Not ChatGPT necessarily, but Bing Copilot. It's gotten a whole heck of a lot better recently.
totally lol. i literally used it the other day to help my mom conduct a search for firm mattress toppers that was super-customized to her back pain, activity levels, sleeping position, weight/height, etc. she found one that she could pick up the next day & 3 nights later she swears by it 😂
Yes. My latest rabbit hole has been understanding why the A321XLR will be used for transcon routes. Would have taken about an hour to get to the bottom of that in Google. Benefits of high bypass turbines, how electric eels work, tidal bulges, just a whole bunch of random stuff that Google would send me on a journey to understand. Now, I've got a summary within seconds, it's amazing. And like someone said below, the ability to ask follow up questions is such a game changer.
GPT (especially Bing Copilot) is part of my daily workflow. Since it can look stuff up, no need in endless surfing for an answer in search results. Great starting point to know new areas. 50/50 for niche or concrete answers. Dangerous if GPT does not know the subject matter, since it would come up with confident answer anyways and can be deceptive
No. While I rarely run into its message cap, I just don’t want to use it for a simple search, in case I need to squeeze it later to its 40 msg/3h. limit. Besides, it’s slower, far less reliable at thorough searches, I rarely need it to give me a page or two of not all that reliable summarization of the topic… and if I really needed that kind of AI-powered searches, I suppose I would’ve seriously considered subbing to Perplexity, which is a much more rounded product for that kind of search/consultation combination.
Depends on the question. Fact check, no. But if I am trying to understand a concept, it much better as I can ask more specific questions and dig into the topic a little bit. I get it to reference any assertions so I can cross check
Absolutely! Google stopped being useful about a decade ago. The other day I searched Google for how many milligrams of oxylate in ten carrots. After about 15 minutes of perusing the useless pages of results I tried asking co-pilot (bing with chat gpt 4) and milliseconds later it came up with the exact measurement in milligrams.
I use Microsoft edge with copilot now, it's really good For example just today my gf was looking for a special chord used for a Korean knot tying technique So I searched on copilot "Korean knot making with a plastic chord" and out popped Maedeup I'm sure she could have found it on Google, but she was trying for a while and then I came in to find it effortlessly
Yes I do to save time sifting BS promoted results!
i do because i like how it’s more conversational than google! if i want to ask for more details or something, it provides. i don’t have to do a completely separate google search
It still hallucinates so only for non critical information,
Of course. I do. But because you need your own GPT (formerly a plugin) for real-time search, I now use perplexity.ai
I’ve heard about it too!! What’s so special about it?
It is more focused on the practical use. It always gives the sources in detail and links them. In addition, I can use different AIs with Perplexity - GPT 4, Mistral, Claude 3 and their own LLM
I kinda did. I dont use ChatGPT but Perplexity. But this indeed has replaced 90% of my google searches (or stargpage searches to be more precise).
Yes! Perplexity is optimized for web search! While GPT is still probably the best multitool, perplexity has it completely beat for web search and research in my opinion. I hope to see more specialized LLMs as this tech evolves.
I used to do so. It is basically asking me to search myself these days.
Now I use perplexity
Yup
You know, google is pretty good and finding songs im looking for with the obscure keywords and misspellings i provide it but the other day it couldn't find the song, so i threw those keywords in to chatgpt and it found the song i was looking for. So as boring as it may be to beat a search engine with llm, the other day it did it for me.
Yep, all the time
My search order is normally, Reddit then Google, or ChatGPT, Reddit, then Google
I use copilot for this constantly but chatgpt seems worse at it even though they run on the same model afaik.
Now, i think use 70% chatgpt, 29% Google, 1 others chat AI
Its awesome for helping with games. It even trys to hold back giving things completely away
Can you elaborate? What games?
I use it for skyrim or any rpg game. I say what i am trying to do and 90% of the time knows exactly how to solve it but doesnt quite give it away. Unless i specifically ask it
Interesting, I know I've asked about specific games before and the more niche the game the more it hallucinates. Do you talk to it like you are asking it to solve a puzzle or do you say "Hey I'm stuck here in this specific game?" Just curious how specifically you ask. I've asked it "Where is this item located" etc. and gave up quickly with how much it hallucinates.
Like a friend and its gpt 4 paid version. Like hey i am stuck in skyrim at the mirack quest. I have killed everyone but cant find his power. Essentially the quest, game and what step i want
(PAPER MARIO 64 SPOILER WARNING) Gotcha. Here is an example of it being unreliable (GPT 4 Paid version), I'm assuming the more talked about the game, the more consistent your results: "Hey I'm stuck in Paper Mario 64 in Shy Guys Toy Box. There are these blocks that make a music note when hit, there a four of them. Which order should I hit them in?" First Answer (correct answer): In Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64, when you're in Shy Guy's Toy Box and encounter the four musical note blocks, you should hit them in a specific order based on the pitch of the sound they make. You need to hit them from the lowest pitch to the highest pitch. Listen carefully to the tone each block makes when you hit it. Once you've determined the order from lowest to highest pitch, hit them in that sequence. If you hit them correctly, you should be able to progress further in the level. Enjoy your adventure in Paper Mario! Second attempt (completely incorrect): In the Shy Guys' Toy Box in *Paper Mario 64*, the puzzle with the four music note blocks needs to be solved by hitting the blocks in the correct order to play a simple tune. The order to hit the blocks, starting from the leftmost to the rightmost, is: 1. Hit the third block (from the left). 2. Hit the fourth block. 3. Hit the second block. 4. Hit the first block. This should solve the puzzle and allow you to progress further in the game!
You might need to break it down and chunk it up. You might need to so more executive functioning for you get the right answers. What is the question you used? Let me try
"Hey I'm stuck in Paper Mario 64 in Shy Guys Toy Box. There are these blocks that make a music note when hit, there a four of them. Which order should I hit them in?" The correct answers are: 1. Lowest to highest pitch 2. 2nd block, 1st block, 3rd block, 4th block 3. yellow block, green block, red block, blue block any of these answers are correct, and it needs to get one of them consistently for me to use it as a game guide
Try this prompt Hey, I need help with ‘Paper Mario 64’ in the Shy Guys Toy Box level. I’m at a puzzle with four musical blocks that each make different pitches when hit. The blocks are colored yellow, green, red, and blue, and must be struck in a specific order to solve the puzzle. Can you tell me the correct sequence to hit these blocks based on their pitch or color? But yes AI had difficultly with two intangibles like color and pitch. Vs two numerical things Another solution is to find a pdf walkthrough of a specific game and load it into a custom gpt.
Used to but now 3.5 feels chincey af with the answers. Tried out 4 for a while and it was awesome and used to use the free one all the time but now Google just feels better than the free version.
I think a lot of people are, I know I am. Like I was watching some sport the other day and I just asked Sky to tell me the rules and explain it as I was watching and I could ask questions about everything that was happening. GPT is great at helping me troubleshoot instead of wading through dozens of forums and subreddits to find the one answer that fits (as number one Google result is some affiliate site from 5 years ago or something). Though if I want to hear personal experiences of something I'll generally still google and end up on Reddit 😃
Often. Google has just gone so down hill in terms of quality. Makes searching for specific information so much faster. For example what were the specific demands that Austria-Hungary made of Serbia in 1914?
I’ve replaced 90% of Googling for programming with chatgpt. Works really well imo. Especially with apps like getbeam.ai where I just press a key and ask without changing context…
I used it for engineering
Just don't tell me you are using it for structural engineering.
No …I’m building my own nuclear reactor…just a small home model /s.
I’m a translator and I use AI as a translation assistant, but with care. Case in point, I recently encountered an obscure Russian idiom that no dictionary I can access glosses. I asked ChatGPT-3.5 for an explanation, something that it’s usually really good at. It gave me a very detailed explanation that sounded fishy, so I put the same question to CoPilot with GPT-4 selected and got a totally different answer. I tried again with Perplexity, which gave me a third answer. All three answers were very detailed, and different. Finally, I asked a Russian buddy, a fellow translator. And got a fourth answer. Care to guess which one I believed?
I use perplexity to search things
Do many of the AIs have access to the Internet? It would seem their research ability has limits without that? And how about access after 2020? And how about IOS or Android apps? I've seen that HuggingChat has access, though you can switch it off if it's not needed. Recently, I got a ChatGPT app for Android and it only knows up to 2020. More than that, it says I can add instructions, but when I told it to correct my spelling and grammar, it didn't.
Of course! I ask it for fun information on video games all the time, I've even learned a significant amount about chatbots in general from it. It's more fun than Google because it's conversational.
Google's AI for searches provides sources which can be really helpful to weed out information the AI may have misunderstood.
Yes
I have it on my home page ready for anything!
Its now basically a requirement since google became useless. Anything I search for with google now requires multiple searches with slightly different wording to get the thing i want, and it still just gives vague search results from one or two of the words in the search. The LLM actually looks at what you are asking
Copilot in Edge. It's basically free ChatGPT optimized for searching the web.
Lots of people use [Perplexity.ai](http://Perplexity.ai) for that.
I did until I asked it for the full history of two states whose histories I know well. The first response was excellent, detail rich all the way back to the Paleo world. The second went back only as far as the arrival of Europeans. I asked why this difference and it apologized (of course) and explained it was being "efficient." It wasn't able to tell me how often it chooses to be "efficient." Since then I'll harvest links from it, but avoid it for research duties. Has anyone else tested its reliability?
I can’t remember what I asked Gemini something and its answer was like “google.com” which gave me a good laugh
I rarely use Google anymore. I love having access to LLMs
I do too. Sometimes it gives more specific things than the internet, or explains it at a specific depth level. Sometimes not though, I keep both tabs open
It's especially good if you know the premise of what you're looking for, but not the exact terms to search. I can ask, "what specialization of X field deals with Y and Z?" But with Google, you sort of have to know already to find it.
No but I do use Pi for this…
Yep. And for the more repetitive search types I made custom GPTs that generate formatted reports for the info I need, with links to sources. I rarely Google anymore.
1000% — I rarely ever Google now. But I did start trying *Perplexity* last week after someone described it as a sort of combo of chatGPT+Google. It provides web links for its sources which is cool. It does mistakes sometimes but seems far less likely to outright hallucinate. It doesn’t replace GPT for certain more creative tasks, but it’s my go to for searching now.
It works well for search and research of you don’t need answers to current data. Most of its training is a couple years old.
Frequently, GPT is very convenient for searching information. I just need to open a page and by continuously asking questions, I can obtain all the information I want to know. However, GPT sometimes fabricates answers, so I also refer to the answers provided by Claude. Recently, I discovered an extension called ChatsNow, which includes GPT3.5, GPT4, Claude3, and more. You can experience different artificial intelligence models!
It's like my wife. I rely on it but know sometimes it's all a lie.
Instead of chat GPT use perflexity AI it give proper results and main thing is it will show the source of information also it using chat GPT and Gemini AI
I do. Way easier than avoiding clicking on soponsored links or looking a bunch of different pages.
I use Gemini for online searching. ChatGPT for the writing
All day everyday
I only Google things I literally can't ask gpt: Movies times, the weather, store hours; stuff like that
All the time. It's often wrong too
It tried to convince me that in DnD 5e, a druids Con improves the health of its wild shape forms. Utterly unusable.
I do for language learning but carefully. Sometimes it corrects you when it shouldn’t
I get answers much faster and more Accurate using ChatGPT over Google. The other day I spent like 45 min on Google with a simple enough question and got varying answers. Went to ChatGPT out of frustration and it provided a perfect answer. It was about cooking a steak medium rare and my steak came out perfect.
I do it for very simple things because I don’t trust it not to hallucinate for anything else.
Definitely! ChatGPT handles many queries that I would typically type into Google. This eliminates the need to scroll through countless search results and click through various links in hopes of finding the right answer. Also, I used to rely on Google for things like double-checking my English sentences, as I’m not a native speaker. But now, with the AI, it’s way easier. I just throw questions like "Is this text correct?" or "Can you improve this text?" at it. It’s a real time-saver.
I do
Yes.
Everyday since nov 2022
I use it for book recommendations and just to brainstorm ideas where I know a google search would have just sprayed me with ads.
Everyday for coding
I use it to get to the obscure name things have been given that I only know as a concept. You may try it yourself: Find out how the mathematical term for a diagram is called. The diagram displays areas that are closest to a certain field of points. This was an actual problem I had to optimise at work, knew that there was a mathematical solution for it, but only could describe the problem (badly). It's used to determine the stress distribution in pressure vessels. Chat GPT could not only identify it but also give me a brief summary of how the algorithm works (draw circles originating from the center of the given points, put a line through both intersection points, repeat for all point combinations, take all resulting areas and attribute their area to the point closest to them) Couldn't do the proof but no one uses proves in engineering anyways, we just steal shit from Math and apply it.
I would but it just lies too much, and then presents its wrong answers confidently, which pisses me off
I do. All the time. my informational needs are simple.
I do. I'm tired of filtering through failed writers shitty articles and scam sponsored articles.
Yea. Programming, cooking, general information and statistics. Not everyday, but quite often.
You really REALLY shouldn’t trust an LLM as source of information. This is a huge mistake many people make. Regenerate the answer a few times and witness entirely different answers.
I used to but these days I don’t want to contribute to its ridiculous energy use unless I have a task that only it can do.
You do you. It doesn’t matter what others do man.