Not an advertisement I swear, but I honestly love language models, I specifically use Chat GPT and Gemini ALL the time.

I’m someone who loves research and learning. I always have questions on all sorts of things. Before GPT I would be googling things for hours each day, visiting forums, watching YouTube videos, etc.

Now with GPT I can ask so many questions on things I am curious about, and even ask follow up questions or ask for more in depth explanations.

I think I am also a bit ADHD and so my brain is always jumping around different topics which makes me curious on specific things. My latest is insects, specifically wasps.

I absolutely hate bugs, and wasps are the worst. But I am now learning more and more how important a lot of bugs actually are to the ecosystem. It’s really a great way to learn and engage with topics when you can ask follow up questions or ask for more details on specific aspects.

TLDR: GPT has replaced 90% of my research that Google used to be.

Important Note: Please be aware language models can be innacurate and prone to mistakes, so always verify the data from other sources if you need accurate information and not just general knowledge.

  • kubica@fedia.io
    30·
    2 days ago

    Be careful about all the lies it tells you, everytime I doulbe check something there are made up things. It is only useful for introductory keywords, but it starts to fill the gaps randomly when it doesn’t know about the topic.

    • darkstar@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      47·
      2 days ago

      Thankfully for general knowledge questions it gets things correct. A lot of what I ask or am curious about is general knowledge so it works really well for me

      • kubica@fedia.io
        16·
        2 days ago

        My problem used to be that I started like that, and then I wanted to ask more an then another bit more, and that’s when things get messy. And at some point I usually end up annoyed that half of the conversation was based on a lie. Now I barely open the chat because of that.

          • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            Probably my #1 use case currently. I love passing in code and saying “parse all these values and build an error message if they’re empty” and such. It’s things good to have, but I can rarely be bothered to write out line by line - it’s easy but horribly tedious

      • KichaeEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        It gets things most popular. That is often in a different postal code from “right”.