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I haven’t found any good use cases for chatgpt.

I tried using it as a replacement for a search engine but having to double and triple check the output generated became tiresome.

It kind of works for writing simple functions but anything beyond that I found it gets it wrong. Again, double/triple checking became tiresome.

I wonder if any other professional fields have found a way to improve their workflows with it?




> I wonder if any other professional fields have found a way to improve their workflows with it?

It’s absolutely incredible for content creation in a few ways:

1. For content posts, a good prompt can turn a 2-hour writing session into a 15 minute editing session.

2. Creating texts in foreign languages. This can be content, ads… anything. It’s still better to run whatever you make by a native speaker, but they typically only need to edit rather than create. As such, the time/cost per unit of content is much lower.

3. Combine AIs to make multimedia content — for example, one AI for a script, another AI for voices, and another AI for images. We have only scratched the surface of what is possible here.

Fwiw, I just started a project using multiple AIs to develop content for foreign language learning. It’s incredibly powerful and ridiculously fast compared to previously existing methods.


>but having to double and triple check the output generated became tiresome.

There are things that you can verify instantly. Example: "in gnu units, how do you convert days to hours and minutes". After 3 googles I could not find the syntax to use multiple output units. ChatGPT got it in one try.


Thank you for mentioning this example. I never knew units had that feature! (Also, to save the next person the few seconds to try out the most plausible symbols, it's "You want: hours;minutes" with semicolon.)


I find the problem with the errors (in 3.5) is that they're not the kind of human-made error we're used to detecting, so the process of parsing the responses feels more arduous and sometimes confusing.


One good use case my friend shared was "create a list of CEO/CFO/COB of the following companies in this format (csv file format)" and send a list of companies.

Someone was going to write a scraper to look all this information up based on company sites or SEC reporting, but chatgpt4 was able to do this in less than 5 minutes (of course YMMV for veracity, but in this case an 80/90% solution was a much better start than spending a day scraping hundreds of sites.


Are you a paid subscriber? Like are you using the GPT4 model?


GPT4 gets stuff wrong in the same way, you just have to pay $20 a month for the privilege.


In my experience going from 3.5 and 4 is going from generally useless novetly to indispensible team member. Yes it gets things wrong, so do I! My experience of working with GPT4 (except for a couple of weeks back when they made some change that made it SUPER dumb from which they seem to have recovered now) is that it's a bit like having a mid-level staff member that understands instructions really well, works almost instantly and sometimes makes mistakes.


One brilliant use for it is to rephrase your emails in corpo speak.

Write short email: "where the fuck is X, you promised it will be here by monday, i will complain to management if you dont deliver"

use chat gpt to convert it into polite reminder email that will hit you will escalate to management, without any potential HR issues.


I use it for everything. Random questions/research, generating code, documentation, short stories for the kids/fun, etc. Good enough it is quite often good enough.

It only three current limits, or I'd use it even more:

- Length

- Ability to import data/documents (Data Analysis is limited)

- Nothing newer than 2021.


Twice a month I'm writing some contrived recursive function, or basic unit test suite and think "Oh boy, actually something I can ask chatGPT"

Otherwise, no.


Try phind.com, it's chatGPT with better search.




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