“Investment in AI has reached a new high with a focus on generative AI, which, in most cases, has yet to deliver its anticipated business value," Gartner has said.
I find interesting that you’re using the bot for something else (coding aid) than me (translation aid), and yet the conclusion is the same - you need previous knowledge of what you’re asking to sort out the bullshit being generated by a system that doesn’t really know anything.
To be honest, I was surprised it had any idea about FFMPEG. The biggest problem is that it sounds so authoritative.
If it said, “hey I don’t know a huge amount about X” then you could work with that. But it will blithely say “no problem” and spit out 6 pages of non working code that you then have to debug further, and if you don’t know the terms in the area you’re working in you end up blundering around trying to find the right trigger word to get what you want.
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I find interesting that you’re using the bot for something else (coding aid) than me (translation aid), and yet the conclusion is the same - you need previous knowledge of what you’re asking to sort out the bullshit being generated by a system that doesn’t really know anything.
To be honest, I was surprised it had any idea about FFMPEG. The biggest problem is that it sounds so authoritative.
If it said, “hey I don’t know a huge amount about X” then you could work with that. But it will blithely say “no problem” and spit out 6 pages of non working code that you then have to debug further, and if you don’t know the terms in the area you’re working in you end up blundering around trying to find the right trigger word to get what you want.