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.
Show threadeigenman Dec 18, 2022
@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.
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 threadeigenman 
@Ik @riskindan ACTUALLY, what I really want is a speech to text interface to ChatGpt.
Dec 19, 2022 at 3:59pmWeb