Dan RiskinDec 18, 2022
I asked #chatgpt to write me an essay, with citations, about a scientific topic I know very well (bat crawling behaviour). It wrote a bad essay that didn’t really say much, but cited two papers with which I wasn’t familiar, in very good journals. I was freaked out! How did I not know those papers?
Turns out, chatgpt just made them up. The papers don’t exist. That’s a handy thing to know.
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@riskindan Had the same experience asking it for some coding questions. It posted things I didn't know but looked right(have 25 years sftwr exp). Go to compile and doesn't work. Turns out it either just made up the language or was mixing languages or both. But a surface examination of the code looks like it SHOULD work. The pattern was spot on but the details were a fairy tale.
Dec 18, 2022 at 4:00amWeb
Show threadOlivier Slabbers Dec 19, 2022
@eigenman @riskindan Maybe it writes bad code, but it can add code comments in any tone of voice you want it to.
Show threadeigenman Dec 19, 2022
@Ik @riskindan 😂 I'm going to start submitting pull requests with that style of commenting and see if ppl notice.
Show threadOlivier Slabbers Dec 19, 2022
@eigenman @riskindan Or take it a step further https://shakespearelang.com/1.0/
shakespearelang

Show threadeigenman Dec 19, 2022
@Ik @riskindan Might be easier to chuck my code into ChatGPT and just tell it to rewrite my comments in the style of Shakespeare.
Show threadOlivier Slabbers Dec 19, 2022
@eigenman @riskindan A plugin that rewrites comments shouldn’t be too hard? ChatGPT seems to be quite good at interpreting code (and data) and describing what it does.
Show threadeigenman Dec 19, 2022
@Ik @riskindan Ppl have been making ChatGPT plugins. True, Probably not hard but I don't even have time for the things I currently do lol.
Show threadOlivier Slabbers Dec 19, 2022
@eigenman @riskindan When does that whole robots taking our jobs thing finally begin?
Show threadeigenman Dec 19, 2022
@Ik @riskindan Robots can have my job. It's usually JR DEVS PMing me all day because they're lazy. Funny thing is I've told them to ask ChatGPT first now. Might not have been a good idea as ChatGPT is wrong a lot but the questions they ask are things like, how to write a unit test, how do observables work in angular, etc... and they are just lazy at google so maybe ChatGPT makes it easier and they stop bothering me as much
Show threadeigenman Dec 19, 2022
@Ik @riskindan ACTUALLY, what I really want is a speech to text interface to ChatGpt.